A hospital is bombed, killing hundreds.
The boy in front of me buys a gallon of milk and a pack of gum.
Three students in Vermont are shot, a hate crime.
The man beside me stares intensely into his crossword.
A US ship is attacked in the Red Sea.
The girl across from me snaps her best friend.
Another dream is ended; a family is
shot dead at the border.
torn apart, never to see each other again.
stomped down by mercenaries in
Palestine’s West Bank.
Ukraine’s Donetsk.
East Yemen.
Rural Myanmar.
I look up, and a woman walks by, golden retriever in her stride,
No fear in the world that he’ll ever leave her side.