Restore Rapport

Featured Image Above: Black-and-white photo of a street art mural depicting a tug-of-war between a Russian and Ukrainian soldier on a war memorial in Izyum, Ukraine. (Getty Images photo)

Written in the quiet hours of early morning, Restore Rapport is a poetic protest against the machinery of war and the silence that surrounds it. Inspired by the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, this piece asks: where is the understanding? What are innocent lives being sacrificed for? Paired with a black-and-white battlefield memorial and Einstein’s timeless words, the poem becomes both a lament and a call to withdraw from destruction.

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” — Einstein

Restore Rapport


War!
Sees no exit door
For
Its dirty floor

Who saw
Them roar
For
More?

Raw
To the core,
An infected sore –
War!

Withdraw
The short straw
For
War!