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| To see Ismail Alabdullah's heartbreaking video tweet, go to https://twitter.com/SyriaCivilDef/status/808834482610589697 |
for Aleppo
if danger crescendos
like a heating tea kettle
jaw of a broken jar
open as the mouth of the moon
if I die
still young
remember that I died
as people have always
died
as you lie
listening
do not remember me for
this last message
remember the song I sang
if you sleep through
what we lived for as it burns
think about my smoke
how when it touched your skin
you turned away
Freesia McKee is a working poet. Her words have appeared in the Huffington Post, Gertrude, Painted Bride Quarterly, Burdock, and Sundress Press's Political Punch anthology. She co-hosts The Subtle Forces, a weekly morning show on Riverwest Radio in Milwaukee.