Villanelle: One Step, One Inch
Standing back to back, go around the earth
Once home for grandmothers, a resting place
Facing each other, just one step, one inch
Grenades cut the bridges, left the ashes
Grandfathers used to fish at the lakes there
Standing back to back, go around the earth
Tanks left brothers cold on the battlefields
A picnic in blossoms a while ago
Facing each other, just one step, one inch
Bombs snapped the strings between those families
Once attractive mounts draw the whole nation
Standing back to back, go around the earth
Bullets penetrated childhoods in blood
There marbles, pebbles, all they used to play
Facing each other, just one step, one inch
Died, poor, thousands of brothers and sisters
There was once one united North and South
Standing back to back, go around the earth
Facing each other, just one step, one inch