Injustice

Bang.

The initial bomb goes off.
An explosion so loud, yet so soft.
Incineration, countless instantly dead.
No one for a square mile bled.
Cauterized within seconds they were.
Panic and screams swirl into a blur.
Buildings, homes, chipping away like chalk.
Bodies and bricks littered the sidewalk.

Some are blinded, some are maimed.
Terrified, scrambling along the remains.
A shadow at my feet, coming from above.
We wanted this, when push comes to shove.
Looking up, helicopters, and planes.
Smoking, burning, killing,
One became two, then twenty,
The sky went dark.
Awaiting the snark:

Alarms and sirens screamed all across the city.
Nuclear war was started, with no one to pity.
There's no mercy until the killing ends.
We wouldn't be fighting a war to seek friends.

The funny thing is that we fight our kind.
Divided by appearances, but yet we are blind.
Divide and conquer, separate us all.
Will the chaos cease when humans fall?
Can we stop, do we have time still?
How will it be, your very first kill?

A man, you shot him, through is right eye socket.
But didn't see his son's photo in his jacket pocket.
His wife had died last year, and his mother stepped in.
You didn't know him or how hard his life had been.
But he was an enemy, that's all they said.
They told you enough to want him dead.
Judgement is needed, we cannot all be blind.
Killing ourselves and evolving centuries behind.

And how many animals kill their own breed,
Over politics, territory, power, or greed?
We are the mammals who haven't grown.
The proof in our history clearly has shown.
Based on color, wealth, and political side.
Letting propaganda and illusion be our biased guide.

I bet you can't think of a reason why,
We feel it's okay to let children die.
Justifying it with imaginary borders.
Classifying massacre as restoring world order.

Author's Note

Please let me know what you think.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, immediately every violent act is automatically labeled, "terrorist"---
but are they all? is that just the easy solution....
it often does go much deeper----and there are as emily dickinson said times when "the planks in reason break/ and we go down and down/ and hit a world with every plunge."

j.

[Taino]

Powerful, profound and sad to say, so true. These are the times we live in, but that can't be the new normal. I've read this poem several times and you've written so eloquently the inner fears and battles many of us face, and our numbers are increasing.

[TerryDarcy-Ryan akaSh..]

Scarlet Rose, your piece is well written and executed.
You give the reader a flow to move by and you leave the reader to ponder this is what we do. Society uses violence as a tool politician speak against law enforcement and military count on it we are conditioned in it and we expect it.
From Chaos there is opportunity Man as a species is an opportunity seeking survivor. Great job Brave writing.

Am I evil? Yes I am.
Am I evil? I am man, yes I am.
Metallica

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