‘Never again’ we said …then the beasts took over.
The sun rises defeated; spattered in red.
A blob of human stain
holding the wreckage from the killing fields
in helpless despair and unflinching horror
unbelieving this spiral …
Moral apocalypse.
The brutal killings
smoke, dust, concrete and rubble
endless and everyday.
Countless. Nameless. Incomprehensible.
Screaming, torn bodies lie silenced.
in white shrouds stained with blood
and tears.
Like peace branches — of perished worth
The Furies rejoice this twisted festival
dancing on fires
of chaos, hatred and destruction
the grandest spectacle of human hubris
Trumpeting victories of our dark ambitions.
From Guernica to Gaza
through Rwanda, Bosnia, Sudan, Myanmar, Ukraine, Afghanistan ….
many forgotten, others justified.
A hall of mirrors
Revealing the beasts within
the headiness of vengeance.
To the center of the scarred battlegrounds
is nailed our destiny.
The tightened noose of the Hangman
for we stand boisterous on the graveyard
Of Time- that ominous snake coil.
Bearing Death; and becoming It.
“.. so this is christmas and what have you done another year is over a new one has begun.” (War is Over)
