Moon at Half Past Noon

I

I saw Silvio sing
‘Te doy una canción’
Through a giant rubble
of homes deserted

Hung empty letter boxes
Only the stinking breath of the war
Whistlight through empty corridors
सिल्वियो ’s voice, you could hear
‘Te doy una canción’

Through the streets of
Gaza, Donetsk and
Every god forsaken land
He hovers like a bard of love
Singing a requiem in an alien world
Where a river of blood, bones, and broken spirits
Flows, dry, inside the grumbling belly of war

‘I give you a song, if I open a door’
He moans, and flutters like a banner
For the defeated and desperate