Madrid

11.3.04

 

Bookbags are for learning

not bombs

trains for travel

not death

and Madrid

"vibrant crossroads

for Iberia"

used to tears of laughter

not of grief

brothers and sisters

"gatos" broken on TV

across the world

parties postponed

for weeping

Published in "Poems for Madrid" (2004) by nthposition, p. 8