#idk just adding tags to this feels like cheapening the sentiment
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Once paper boats, now warships Seven folds of man’s ego trip Paper hearts were made to rip
Murals of faces, blacked with grime Drones and bombs sing lullabies at bedtime This is what happens when art is crime
Soured frosting on a birthday cake Exit wounds in place of heartache The school is rubble at daybreak
No words to voice their consternation Children forged in revolution Become its teeth, its serration
Paper hearts, folded once, now folded twice Shown dreams of ecstasy and paradise Paper hearts, misguided, now folded thrice
Young men take despots for commanders Trained in death, destruction, and slander Their graves marked only by pink oleander
Paper hearts, creased, unfolded Children turned to men blindfolded By zealots, fear, and hunger moulded
This is not about you or me This happens to be what happens to be Or are you, too, blindfolded and cannot see?
#nahesa#n4h354#writerscreedchallenge#paper hearts#poetry#poem#im doing another challenge thing woo#also im v glad that i was able to do this because i was feeling particularly writers block-y today so this is good#this is progress#i am glad#i grew up in the middle east so this is a v emotional piece for me#wartime#political#idk just adding tags to this feels like cheapening the sentiment#but i do want this to be seen#especially because it is so important to me personally#war poetry
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