tw: bombings, genocide, implied that this is about palestine
~it was just america's independence day so expect a lot of anti-american poems coming soon~
written on: july 7, 2024
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Oh say, can you see
Someone is screaming
By the dawn's early light
Help me, help me please
What so proudly we hailed
The hospital hallways are overflowing
At the twilight's last gleaming
So very different from the once-empty halls of the elementary schools and universities
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
They were empty, now they do not exist
Through the perilous fight
So quiet, a kind of silence that only weapons of mass destruction can leave behind
O'er the ramparts we watched
Unlike the hospital, where mothers weep in despair, children cry out in pain, husbands lay deathly still on their gurneys
Were so gallantly streaming
The doctors and nurses rush around the makeshift curtains with an endless stream of apologies
And the rockets' red glare
I'm sorry, we have run out of anesthesia, we cannot give you anything for the pain
The bombs bursting in air
I'm sorry, there's nothing we can do for your son
Gave proof through the night
I'm sorry, she just passed
That our flag was still there
The apologies continue until they are drowned out by desperate warnings– evacuate, evacuate now
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
There are stars and stripes on the side of the bomb that collapses the hospital on top of countless innocent souls
O'er the land of the free
There are no stars in the sky that can be seen through the dust, the only stripes come from the blood that stains the streets
And the home of the brave
Someone is screaming again
YOU ARE READING
poetry by jungenwunder
Poetrymy old stuff is pretty bad but my newer stuff is much better, please pay attention to when it was written and feel free to start at the end of the book!! i will have trigger warnings at the beginning of chapters when necessary. stay safe, i love you.
