Hostages kidnapped: casualties of war

After extorting pound of flesh
lifetime humiliation drummed into captives
hammering indelible nightmare
no amount of therapy can expunge.

Lifetime trauma inflicted perpetrators wage
dead bodies littered makeshift triage
death and destruction
exhibit super fresh killing fields,
where sally forth set pathmark
to abominable gut wrenching
ghastly hollow hellscape.

Haunting horrid macabre scenes assault,
batter, clobber, et cetera the senses
death construed as mutual
(of Omaha) collateral damage
fallout populated by zone of dead bodies
littering apocalyptic landscape
rendering spooky morbidly fascinating,
especially from safe vantage point
bajillion miles away
whereby yours truly

hunched over his Macbook Pro laptop

glanced the headlines without further delay
aid convoys moving into Gaza Strip
a tepid hip hip hooray
impossible mission for
overactive imagination of artist
or writer to capture bedlam and melee,
scaring up heavenly sight
for grim reaper soirée
repository for skull and crossbones
as arid (extra dry) winds hasten desiccation

whistling repartee (even from afar)
faintly resembling mourning of Zalay.

Countless hungry ill clad masses beg

the question regarding
purposefulness of mortal kombat

screaming in agony against cutthroat

belligerents who gleefully gloat

laying waste besieging
ship of state and emergency lifeboat

senselessly bombing spelling

likelihood for peace on earth remote

silencing the lambs and yellowthroat!

Methinks spouting protestation
against loosed strife,
courtesy demoniac Homo sapiens
where talking heads strategize foo fighters

pointless exhalation of breath
sabotaging, shortchanging, siccing,
squashing, subjecting, et cetera

innocent bystanders ultimately hastening them/

they to untimely and unfair nasty,

shortish and brutal death
linkedin to personal choice of deity

and attendant religious shibboleth.