wheat leaves rustle in gleaming sunset,
air saturated with aromas.
deadly silence.
blood on sunflowers.

she steps, slow shadow,
hand stretched—black soil’s blessing.
poppies in the skull.
cracks on bones.

night falls, hugging trees:
dark forest luring.
will you come back—
will we see each other again—

infinity of void ***** in all life,
never to let go,
never to be free,
never to see.

smoke clouds vision,
explosions deafening.
restless sleep.
restless death.

why is it happening—child’s voice,
old life lost in screams.
all fairness abandoned—
devoid of justice.

viburnum glows in the rising sun,
red cherries bursting with fleshly remnants.
white walls, straw roofs
aged with soot.

her voice loud and clear—
song of the river’s stream:
waters of memories of the past
growing in strength
to consume all that remains.
life’s birth.

hope grows.
a fallen seed,
covered in frost.