Turn to poetry:

Boy broken on sidewalk
Sidewalk broken beneath boy
– Lillian Allen, “Broken”

The boy is broken on the sidewalk
The sidewalk is broken beneath him
His colour is back (not black)
Because it was washed out
Worrisome for his aunt
Whose leg was taken to save her life
No, not diabetes but from shrapnel            Flying

What have we forgotten to say
to give the heart ease
Just out of diapers when learning to walk
the body seeks an inherent language of peace

What do you wish to be?
Happy, I’m sure

You may ask;
Whose voice is in my head, so fully formed?
So old and heavy with pain and venge
Behind the lead(er) passage is set
Funeral is the badge

Language now frozen symbols
Symbols like bells calling
Calling to the divide
Fists and blows and broken
Splayed like shrapnel on the sidewalk

Fall away   fall away
What do you wish for the world
What do you wish for your heart
Boy broken on sidewalk
Sidewalk broken beneath boy