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Mostar- A Poem for Bosnia (2007)

From deep under the surface

Something stirs

The people of this city

Experienced a tragedy

A horror so traumatizing

The city walls and store blocks

Are scarred, both inside and out

 

Bullet holes and burnt buildings

Cemeteries filled with graves

Tombs of those who died

When the wrath rushed through

 

But still it lives on,

The city filled with natives and tourists alike

People sell, people buy

People remember but still people die

 

It is now a historic monument

But slowly the city repairs

Revealing only a faint scab

Fixed by reality

 

People say they will always remember

But how long 'til the scab is gone?

Lost, inside the flesh

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Written by
savannah-varney
American
Published
Apr 13, 2012
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22·110
Notes

Written after I returned from a trip there in 2007. (8th grade)

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