‘Still life’
The picture speaks.
Framed by rain, mud and green,
a warrior sits
and weeps.
She mourns for a fallen comrade,
suffers a minor setback.
For now.
Soon, tears will turn to lead.
Bullets will hail like rain.
Blood will mix with mud.
Red will cover green.
The picture shouts.
To Jelyn Dayong, 17, Red fighter, on her birthday
4 March 1999
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