Iraq
All
our civilisation mongers
lied
and more than
one million
died
*
Nor the first
mass-murder
mind
seek history
and you shall
find
many many
too many more
Empires
built
on blood and
gore
*
Singing arias
the
sorry while
in sombre
stupefacting
guile
grave liturgies
and solemn
rites
of liberty
and human
rights
*
As snakes
slither
and vermin
creep
as swallows
soar
and infants
leap
as (wo)men
work
and (wo)men
weep
I wonder
how
still wonder
now
how how
how do
they sleep?
[© R.Kanth 2023]
Professor Rajani Kanth, is Author of Coda (A Novel), A Day in the Life (Novel), and Expiations (Verse), and Farewell to Modernism (Political Economy Tract).
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