Year erupted like a carcass, twice.
Famine, the god of gangrene
screamed with vice, twice
Ribs were cages rattling air, twice.
Man made inventions
Blockades and sieges
built walls of hunger
and wells of thirst.
The drumbeat of empty bowls
louder than artillery.
Choir of cracked lips
sang sobs of crumbs.
Amputated calendar limped, twice.
Seasons wore shackles, twice.
Grain fields became cemeteries, twice.