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

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