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| Howard University Medical Students (Image source: Carmar Descamento-Park) |
There’s no end
to the battles.
My heart
can’t take
so much fighting,
yet it goes on
spinning
and spinning
like silk
of a forgotten
tapestry.
I am not alone.
You are not alone.
The ramparts
are worth climbing.
The ramparts
are life,
the moat death,
slow and inexorable.
We must
carry our swords
as if we
were masters,
cross the
infested waters,
call out
justice
to the wind,
sing our
blood home
in unison
climbing high
into
the fortress.
David Radavich’s recent collections include America Bound: An Epic for Our Time (2007), Canonicals: Love’s Hours (2009), and Middle-East Mezze (2011). His plays have been performed across the U.S., including six Off-Off-Broadway, and in Europe. His new collection, The Countries We Live In, will come out later this year.