Day 519/Ceasefire Day 49

(for Dr. Abu Safiya)

Where is the doctor now? 
Over two months
since he was consumed by their
vicious machinery.  Where
are his hands, that could find
the precise location of a child’s
pain?  Where are his keen eyes,
his gentle words? Where
are the legs, injured legs,
that carried him over the ruins
of his hospital, into their prisons?
Their torture?  Their twisted
project?  Where
is his grief
for his son, his
colleagues, his patients?  Where
are his thoughts now? To whom
can he speak them?