If you haven’t been to a war zone,
witnessed the devastation
air strikes and artillery shelling
cause to roads, sidewalks,
seen frantic drivers
desperately manoeuvre
between gaps,
holes,
craters –
visit my Canadian city
at the end of winter.
You’ll get the idea.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, writes for Blacklock’s each and every Sunday)
