If yesterday’s missile had taken your body –
I would have lost the only window
Through which I can breathe in this world.
I would weep… I would search for you everywhere:
Among the ruined concrete, in the fragments of the soul, in the blood.
Not as a ghost, not as a walking corpse –
But as one who will never forgive herself
For not stopping you in time.
I would search for you among the ashes,
When the stars were too far away.
Tell me just one word…
And I will remain even closer.
Among the Fragments
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