A Brit, living in America
Listening to Sondheim’s words
Most beautiful sound
I’ve ever heard, Maria
And suddenly that name
Will never be the same
When the peace was shattered
News from the city of my birth
The most awful sound
Of a bomb, deaths and beauty destroyed
For many, their names
Will never be the same
The morning’s images of young girls
All looking like Marias
Violently taken from the North-
West Side Story of my country
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, May 2017
