Yesterday I saw 4 people.
4 young men, walking along a desert path
Quiet peaceful….
Serene
Sand silent so
No sounds of hars-
Instantaneously they were caught up in an explosion
their bodies torn to pieces three of them gone
a leg over there and their torso in the other direction
and their
Bodies blurred
As I watch from a stupid phone screen and
I can\'t even fathom how horrifying it is because
emotions are dulled down
what i see
In front of me
Is different than how much i would feel
if i was right there in that moment
A ghost, is what I am,
Watching as the 4th man
His knees gave out and
He crawled towards
The blurred out remains of what were his friends
Just crimson splatters on the floor
Where are my tears and my humanity? What kind of person have i become to not even
Blink an eye
when the fourth man moves forward one last time
And explodes into nothingness too?
He was innocent, those other three were innocent.
Starved of food beyond starvation of thoughts of
starved from information
we are starved of our senses
deprived of humanity
How can i act humanely
ARE YOU AWAKE NOW CAN YOU EVEN
Hear me from behind the curtain I call you
I call you, the real you, the one not who is stuck in a scrolling loop
knocking on your bedroom door frame, windows of the early morning dawn,
Child, do you hear the melodious call of the mourning dove?
Have you realized that it no longer sings…
no longer because you paid to have it locked up
Dance
and die.
why?