Unseen Wounds
The wounds unseen
Bleed into the mind.
Some will bleed forever
Others leave a deep scar.
Lives have disappeared,
Homes smashed.
Possessions lost,
Stolen by a Russian Czar.
What help can we give
To those who have
Been hurt so much?
Who mourn their loved ones?
Who can heal
Wounds cut so deep
Into the tissues of brains?
Where do we find the funds?
Opher – 26.4.2022
The physical damage is obvious – the destroyed houses, the blown up schools and hospitals, bleeding, broken bodies and heaps of corpses tossed into mass graves.
The physical destruction wrought by war is devastating.
What is not so obvious are the wounds cut into peoples’ minds.
Those grieving for destroyed lives, for loved ones killed or maimed, for what should have been. Those who have lost so much.
What cannot be seen are the traumas created by witnessing the horrors, seeing death, seeing the dead bodies of those you have loved.
These images cannot be erased. These fears and grief cannot be comforted away.
These ae the injuries that destroy minds and last a lifetime.
War creates trauma.