#1581 - what survivors we are

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what survivors we are

 

it’s everything till now we’re past

and we are all still here

 

who survived the bombardment

the bottle, the knife

the force majeure

 

 the slurs, the denigrations

 

we who hid in the cellar

who hid in the walls

 

crouched in the night

slipped off

sometimes invisible

 

we were never the same

 

tree to its utmost leaf

some sing

 

the tree, too, a survivor

 

or dig past every terror

 

drought and flood and pick your fear

 

the damage, the dangers

beyond all time until

 

to be here telling

and just who we are

nor were, now will

 

not those who fell

nor up against

 

and though in time to come we’re gone

I tell this now and here