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1 " The desert is an unpredictable place. One day you're sweating, the next you're freezing. One moment the air is damp and cloudy like when the tide is coming in, the next the entire world is orange and dusty. The desert must be a woman. "
― Dianna Skowera , Of Those So Close Beside Me
2 " LostIn black as solid as a mireIn a land no one would die forIn a time I was lostTo anyone who ever loved meThe world set itself on fireAnd the sky collapsed above meIn a place no one could call homeIn a place I breathed and sleptIn a battle no one understoodThat continued all the sameI sat defenseless and aloneWith the insignificance of my nameIn the midst of the Lord’s birthOn a night meant to be peacefulIn a country of the ProphetWhere women don’t live freeI spoke to God from the shaking EarthAnd prayed my mother would forgive meIn a city without powerIn a desert torn by religionIn a bank between two riversWe added up the decade’s costAnd glorified the final hourOf a war that everyone had lostIn the dust of helplessnessIn a concrete bunkerIn a fate I chose myselfI waited without remorseTo fight again as recompenseFor wasted lives and discourse-an original poem about an attack on our base in Iraq during the Arab Spring "
― Dianna Skowera