Stephen Jarrell Williams

 "Rising"

Dirt in my nostrils
blowing it out

yelling

bloody tongue
bloody teeth

stones covering my legs
and aching chest

but I will get up

as the bombs fall
on the cities and countryside

all of us
will get up

rising again and again
to be free!

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