A Man Sits Alone

A man sits alone,
gaping into the eyes of a stranger,
a stranger whose eyes have seen
more than those of the man
who appears before him

As he stares deeper into those eyes --
those eyes that have lost sleep
over the images of emaciated bodies,
of men and women wandering among corpses
desperately trying to find
a father, a sister, a lover, a daughter, or a friend --
he sees the eyes of a child,
a child who has seen
what hunger, and torture, and hate
can do to human beings.
And as he turns from those eyes,
those eyes that pierce his soul
and cause a single stream of tears
to rush down his face,
something draws him back
and the man realizes that those eyes,
they are his own.

Heather Goodman


[ Railing Photograph By David Lebensfeld ]
By David Lebensfeld


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