Casualty of War (a love poem)

a love poem with symbolism and metaphors

  Where do we go?

When there's nothing left...

  When we have no foundation...

      Where do we start?

  Do we leave it behind us?

And throw it away?

  Forget that it happened...

       Only to start again from scratch...

  How many times?

Can we build a city...

  How many times?

       Can we watch it fall...

  I have seen what happens...

When you follow your heart...

  Natural disasters...

       Wipe out your dreams...

  If I think about the truth...

I'm reminded of my youth...

  And those memories are disasters...

        Because I am a casualty of war...