Postcards from Syria, by Brian B.

Postcards from Syria

Have you seen the

Postcards from Syria?

The ancient cities are gone

Replaced by smoke.

Hollows 

Where there were once windows.

A cold hearth

Where there was once a warm fire.

It surprises me to know

That I am the first to tell you.

It's all over the news

Back home in the land of the free.

But did you see his face? (Who)

The man with the bandana.

Gun clutched like a holy book

While silently in tears he

Fought onward to what - Freedom? 

Or another day.

Buy this postcard from Syria.

Mail it to a friend.

Maybe she will receive it

After the war.

Along with that

Green bandana.

That smell -

Of fear?

Or freedom

That will never die.