ANOTHER VIEW

You looked at you, turned to your bags

and said, “We’re going home.” It’s not a future

that we should somehow turn back to our history.

It’s a flair, an army biscuit he had been given

in the darkness: silent, vanished by the view

of a man we should punish.

It’s a world the others

never forget, because there’s another view

that the others never saw. A future we have to accept.

And there’s another view

that the dusk is invisible.

(December 13, 2011)