Part Two

            ……………Water;

Nowhere to be found

And though the thirst now

Never fully quenched,

     Salt tears down cheeks

The Kurdish children didn’t see

Tip the tongue – emotions still intact,

     The heart this soldier sent upon

Vacation – like the hidden notion

Of a holiday; blank upon

The mind but there beneath,

A second away from digging deep

A surface of reminds………….