Hope and love in a city tortured by
memories of heartbreak and loss in war.
Sometime around International Literacy Day,
an African local observed that Valhalla Park
is like walking through Bosnia; a part of Yugoslavia.
Formerly like the other constituent parts split by group-think
it haunts the writer fearing the return
of demagoguery and not just in Africa South.
The other Bosnians Serbs Croats now come together
as peace builders, there is a memorial Veliki Park for kids killed in Sarajevo.
Hope and love in a city tortured by memories of heartbreak
and loss in war recovering and rebuilding in the world’s many Sarajevos.