Hometown

You don’t have to watch

broadcast brutality.

It rips a heart enough

to know it happens.

A friend sat

in The Hague

translating for the

War Crimes Tribunal.

“I’ll never fully shake that,”

he told me later.

But we

broadcast Our War Crimes

for all to see.

Toddlers and grannies

teens and young men.

Hearts in torment.

We don’t have to watch.

But we have to love

Love

Love.

Be better.

Tomorrow and tomorrow

do more.

I love you my home.

-EEM, January 2023