Fumble, fleeing child, amongst
the wreckage of the road
where your bare-feet find
their rubble-future –
fallen possibilities,
destruction-drenched…
There is no poetry in the deliberate sniping of an 8-year-old boy who bears
no weapon, not even a single stone. He was running. A soldier of the Israeli
Defence Force shot him with a sniper rifle. He fell. He bled. He twitched. He
died. His friend, of no more than a few years older himself, came in terror from
the shelter of a car & dragged the body of the unarmed 8-year-old boy, whom
the Israeli Defence Force deliberately, consciously murdered, from the middle
of the road.
Image credit – Baldwin
william altoft 