It is suffering!
Do you want to paint it in
soft focus for those
who consume it on screens
and see the hope-story
crafted neatly for their pleasure.

Happy endings,
tender embraces, and
pain-free video screens.

It is suffering!
Dredging hope from terror days,
drawn out thin
across months,
through years of thinking
this will end but it
does not, it does not!

Lovely portraits in lush gardens,
smiling families,
holding hands amid the certainty
that tomorrow will not be
the same as the body
is the dictator of the soul.

This is it!
No more fictions,
no more fables,
just this truth that
cannot save.

Just this, but
do not say it.