Tuesday, December 13, 2016

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IF THIS IS MY LAST MESSAGE

Sean Lenon 5:33 PM @ishmael12345611, #save_Aleppo, #TheNewVerseNews, Aleppo, Assad, Civil War, destruction, Freesia McKee, Ismail Alabdullah, message, poetry, Russia, smoke, song, Syria, White Helmets

by Freesia McKee

To see Ismail Alabdullah's heartbreaking video tweet, go to https://twitter.com/SyriaCivilDef/status/808834482610589697

for Aleppo

if danger crescendos
like a heating tea kettle

jaw of a broken jar
open as the mouth of the moon

if I die
still young

remember that I died
as people have always
died

as you lie

listening

do not remember me for
this last message

remember the song I sang

if you sleep through
what we lived for as it burns

think about my smoke
how when it touched your skin

you turned away

Freesia McKee is a working poet. Her words have appeared in the Huffington Post, Gertrude, Painted Bride Quarterly, Burdock, and Sundress Press's Political Punch anthology. She co-hosts The Subtle Forces, a weekly morning show on Riverwest Radio in Milwaukee.