In this layered darkness,
deaths are mere numbers
carelessly scribbled on
a blackened wall, unnoticed.
Grief is left out in the open
like orphaned children,
no one bothered to count
as it has no significance.
Isn't it meaningless
as darkness festers still.
Every war claimed won,
leaves behind heaps of
mutilated corpses, that
in nightmares of living,
get up and walk speaking in tongues
with blood letting bodies falling apart.
So many concealed graves are
camouflaged, hidden from the eyes
of the people,whose time is precious
to waste for such things as war crimes.
But these blackened graves break
the hearts of countless families,
where laughter dies for ever,darkness stalks.
Faceless loved ones of the killed,
widows and children uncontrollably cry,
cursing their lives for this walk through the dark.
Every love life is an invisible bound book,
of many stories of pain, recounted in tearful details,
not easily erased, but much more lives are forgotten,
like cattle killed during long season of celebration,
when people eat, drink, and make merry till they faint,
sleep long hours to sedate their consciousness heavy
with guilt for what they do repeatedly, remorseless.
Apr 22, 2016
Apr 22, 2016 at 8:18 AM UTC
In this layered darkness,
deaths are mere numbers
carelessly scribbled on
a blackened wall, unnoticed.
Grief is left out in the open
like orphaned children,
no one bothered to count
as it has no significance.
Isn't it meaningless
as darkness festers still.
Every war claimed won,
leaves behind heaps of
mutilated corpses, that
in nightmares of living,
get up and walk speaking in tongues
with blood letting bodies falling apart.
So many concealed graves are
camouflaged, hidden from the eyes
of the people,whose time is precious
to waste for such things as war crimes.
But these blackened graves break
the hearts of countless families,
where laughter dies for ever,darkness stalks.
Faceless loved ones of the killed,
widows and children uncontrollably cry,
cursing their lives for this walk through the dark.
Every love life is an invisible bound book,
of many stories of pain, recounted in tearful details,
not easily erased, but much more lives are forgotten,
like cattle killed during long season of celebration,
when people eat, drink, and make merry till they faint,
sleep long hours to sedate their consciousness heavy
with guilt for what they do repeatedly, remorseless.
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