The sink holed’s plea

The sink holed’s plea

If you find a skeleton

tied by wires to another skeleton,

tied to another skeleton

and still to another one, that’s me.

Do not look for me in any place,

in a hole or in a ditch.

I lie in those deep and twisted cavities

Flowed by rivers

 which are common in the Kras  region

shared by Italy, Slovenia and Croatia

and ill-famed as  swallow holes.

Please wrap me in a wired drape

and give what rests of my body

 back to my beloveds,

to my homeland

and to the things of God.

I hate no one and forgive all.

Just one last thing I’m going to ask you:

open the eyes of your children to the truth!