Can You See...
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Yelimali Adam, Grade 8
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Poetry
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2018
Can you see the messenger,
delivering the commendation?
Broken, this envoy is,
from delivering agony throughout the nation.
Can you see the trooper’s wife,
obituary in her hand?
Suicide is a tempting choice,
and grief is in demand.
Can you see the bewildered children,
hiding behind their mother?
A life of scorn and mockery
is what they’re bound to suffer.
For the war to end is their hope, their dream,
of this, most aren’t aware.
But despite those people not knowing this, lo and behold,
the dream is still there.