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How long will it be so?
Do you need to have?
Your daily bread of shredded body.
Two shoes: but only one smoking foot.
Half a head; hanging strands of blackened meat, still oozing,
Dripping, where throats once happy sang.
Do you want to see?
And see it 10 gazillion times.
Holes: where humans once happy, just sat.
Half a man; body scraps, once whole, now heaped; still frying.
Sizzling, for your kids to ogle at.
How long should it be so?
How many souls to build one god?
Dark hearts, with not one touch of love?
Jihad? Smiling warm but lying cold,
And surely steeping all of Abraham's sons with hate.
© Andipean
It would be well to remember that Christianity, Judaism and Islam all claim Abraham as the head of their ancestry.
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Death & Delight
PuisiThis “Death and Delight” collection for The Atty’s 2012 is an extract from my other two compilations published simultaneously on Wattpad, under the titles “Decades of Death” and “Decades of Delight”. (Feel free to peruse them in the Poetry section...
