HAVE A NICE DAY

"Have a nice day,"
"God be with you,"
from neighbors
as the trains
are loaded
with the children
soon turning to ashes,
or the mountain of bombs go off
in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
or cries fill Ruanda's streets
or on Cambodia's roads
as others we once knew
ransack the houses
trying to eliminate our memory
we cannot speak or reply.