Day 333

She saw a boy without a head.
She saw a dog eating the corpse
of another dog.  She saw
tents bombed, collapsed.
Cans of food rolling aimlessly
on the ground.  She heard
the crying of men, the wailing
of infants, the sirens
of ambulances suddenly silenced.
The children standing in line
at a hospital, their arms
so thin, their ribs clearly outlined 
under their shirts.  Keep us alive
another month, another day,
another hour, their eyes
said, their voices
too weak from hunger to be heard.