The battered armless tire rolls on the rough sand,
Crinkling and crunching jagged glass.
The boy with his gentle eyes and hopeful smile,
A contrast to his sooty battered frame.
He spins the wheel, his laugh echoing through the haunted land,
Past the smoking rubble and the lives buried beneath.
He pays no attention to the phantom echoes of anguished cries.
Trudging on, a silhouette against the last, pale light from the west.
