Abal*
Her teary eyes peruse her doll
With one of its arms severed
Abal still plays with her beloved doll
as if nothing had happened
The doll still has one arm
from which she grabs it
fate in the form of the bomb
that fell the night of last fall
didn’t select between the two girls
One arm missing from Abal
One arm is missing from her doll
Two arms of two dolls
missing in action
- A girl’s name which means wild rose in Syrian language.
Manolis Aligizakis 