Pat Tillman, the American Hero

By Katherine Shehadeh

Pat Tillman, the American Hero 

died on a hill with that Afghan fellow, nobody
really knows anything about that man or how 
he found himself up there but his family
whose tight-fitting jigsaw still stands in place
having grown in relation to the contours of his shape
they built their lives’ boundary lines to interlock 
with one another, when the other left, space left
empty		 		     	       unable 
to complete the whole picture, they still remain 
still, their own shapes whisper slivers of loss
with memories’ lines tracing back to the missing man.
If you want to know about that man, just look
to the remaining pieces and the 		 hole
forever left between them, taking great care
not to destroy the whole or we’ll never
really know anything about the man
that Afghan fellow, nobody.

Photo by Cedric