A TRILOGY FOR MANCHESTER // PART II
wikipedia weeps
the details of grief.
i complete the search &
plenty of pages
appear.
too many.
'terrorist attack twenty-seventeen'
i ask my screen
& it takes me to the answer
as if the question had actually left my lips.
how many lives wasted?
before humanity seemed strong
but the list of the dead is too long
for a single article.
january, thirty-first,
family members mingle at a birthday party.
while laugh & drink
i should be more grateful that
my mother has survived another year.
within the same day
mothers & husbands,
sisters & sons
fell.
that day, there was no
hashtag pray for
juba
nimule
aden
maiduguri
peshawar.
if my life be taken
do not pray for me
unless you have prayed for them.
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