The Little War?
How can there be
a little war?

Are some deaths
smaller than others,
leaving mothers
who weep
a little less?

Margarita Engle

Tags: war loss death civil-war war-of-independence



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The old life is gone, my days are new,
but time is still a mystery
of wishes, and this sad, confusing fragrance. "
—Rosa

Margarita Engle


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I feel like...
the boy lost somewhere
between the torment of memory
and a few fragile shards
of hope.

Margarita Engle


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That is how I think of peace
and peace of mind—as timid birds
that we have to search for,
not bold ones that come
looking for us.

Margarita Engle


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Like King Midas, I am left with nothing
but this unreasonable hope
that, somehow, my strange life
and my lost family

will return
to normal.

Margarita Engle


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Joy and truth both have a way
of peeking through any dark curtain.

Margarita Engle


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How can people stay sane in a world that makes no sense?

Margarita Engle


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I feel the heaviness of nightmares
even though I am awake.

How weary I am, how sleepless
and hopeless—there is no escape
from the torment
of wishes.

Margarita Engle


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I will never understand
the whole world

or even
one country.

All I can do
is try to understand
the truth and lies
in the simplest choices
I face
every day.

Margarita Engle


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If only the peace I feel right now
could be stored up and released later
when cruelty surrounds me
in the dark
during nightmares.

Margarita Engle


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