The flower symbol
is like the wound
that doesn’t forget
the red
because its color
is the blood
that so many people
shed
so that we live
free
without the stigmata
of barbarity
and now we
are on our way to see
the graves
so that we make lighter
the sleep
of the fighters
who fell
in the field
because no one
told them
how to avoid
the devious
hostility.