Bosnian Woman

by Oonah V Joslin

Amitri! Amitri!

the woman sobbed.

Her child

her only son

whom she had loved

torn from her by a shell.

Her womb

and mind ripped

fragments

she could bear no more.

What God had given

was gone.

The world looked on.

* * * * *

The author notes: This was written years ago. The places change. The faces change. But war goes on.

Oonah V Joslin is an editor at The Linnet's Wings. Her book of poems Three Pounds of Cells was published in 2016.