For Each Mile They Step Poem by Emily Lovell

Hope torn-
their hollow eyes speak,
as a single tear is wiped,
with aching fingers.

The desert plains,
broadcasting their highway-
among dead,
they moan through chaffed lips.

The rocks rained upon their parents,
they recall details,
how they watched; motionless bodies bleed.

Their breaths rattle-
in caved chests,
bread crumbs to fill their ribs.

They taste their last meal,
for each mile they step,
could never destroy the of thought-
of death.


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