Why Does This Happen
I want to love my family but I’m tired of them
waiting for me to die. And they make
so much noise
when they stay. It’s a top room with windows closed
and the television thumping. They’ve been inside
my house for days. How
can I think with all that artillery. I want to love
the way early morning looks
through the glass wall of my
kitchen, how rainbow light twitches
through my windows. But that only reminds me
it is getting later and I
can’t tell you what I should do now
I want to love everyone but I’m tired. In Ukraine the
shells fall and I ask why
Why did this happen to you?
And me
Gail Willems
* Gail Willems is a retired nurse, published in UK, US, Santa Domingo, Australia. She is still surprised when she is published. First poetry collection Blood Ties and Crack Fed Dreams is published by Ginninderra Press.
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