FADE AWAY

Famished, Suffocated
From hunger, from impecuniousness
Pressured,
From trying to protect those I love

Severed,
From a partner's love
Irritating,
To my son, who was birthed, while I was protecting the border

Strange,
To my daughter, who has forgotten what I look like
Shocked,
Is a wife who sees her "dead" husband back home

I fight for my country, but I tussle with keeping my family
Their love for me is fading away; it has faded away, like black, fades to shades of Grey.