FredPeyer

Aftermath

Shifting furrows in the sand

Shadows painted on the land

Shimmering air lying dead

Across the dunes straight ahead

Heavy mid-day desert heat

Where scorpions and death compete

Barren landscape utterly dry

Vultures searching way up high

Bleached skeletons of man and beast

Still monuments to life deceased

Charred and crumbling piece of wall

Silent tears floating sadly above it all

By the devastating power of the gun

Mankind’s self-destructive force had won