After the war–
There is always the after–
The hills and the fields,
The rivers and the green growing flora
Will recover--
After a century or two.
The corporals and the colonels
Who survive and return to their homes,
The attached civilians who return
The battleground civilians who stay–
Many will not live long enough
To recover.
Even were they to become
Centenarians.
After the war
Trauma lives on.
After the vines and grasses
Emerge green
Through cracks in the rubble,
After: rage, and images
Recurrent will emerge
Dangerous, destructive, and disabling.
After the war.
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