Welcome to the Physical World
where everything black is found -
shattered buildings, broken bones
and bombs buried in the ground.

It's a world rife with clichés
and violence gone amiss -
smoke lines the horizon
as death puckers up its first kiss.

Flowers growing
in waterlogged tank tracks,
hundreds of poisoned children
their breath wrought with coughs and hacks,

bloodied crimson stains
the choked gravel that was once streets,
barbed steel walls and gates, blocking
where one nation to another meets.

Welcome to the Physical World
where the gods ignore our desperate pleas,

Welcome to this ****** nation,
that has fallen to its knees.