somewhere in the moonlit dark
just before dawn
someone lights a candle
she is passing her hands over
of a son a daughter
perhaps a husband
a face gone into the mists of war
they are called the disappeared
these faces upon a hundred walls
all over the world
appearing in a thousand demonstrations
carried in the street by women
the birds that fly overhead
recognise the dark tracks
of their weeping
and add their song to their own
listen
they are singing.
Milan, January 30, 1997