Poem: Sarajevo

Written after a trip to that lovely, war-ravaged city in 1997 just after the cease-fire.

Sarajevo Winter of Olympics in 84 and other winters follow The chill winter-killing of neighbors by the thousands and perhaps the tens of thousands The winter of intervention and the winter of snipers here on these streets, chalked with children’s games and outline where bodies lay Then a winter occupied Sarajevo’s children-soldiers held apart by foreign children-soldiers French and Italian, Czech and Russian, Brit and German too Until they leave, not looking back, having evened all the odds of evening the scores by arming everyone evenly and suddenly all the children have grown old

This poem is included in Jim Freeman's poetry collection BROKEN PIECES available here in print or as an e-Book in your favorite formats.