The Livestream
I feel as if I have strolled your beaches
meandered through your neighbourhoods
shuffled through your schoolyards
marched the length and breadth of your hospital corridors
crouched in your crowded dripping tents
cowered over your
bleeding
martyred
maimed
dismembered
injured
from the edges of the inferno
from within the thick of the
debris
stone
brick
and
mortar
all brought to level zero
a hundred thousand times over
It may feel as if I have
but feel what I may
I will never feel what you feel
Not in a million years
and a day
AN FRAOCH 