Collateral Damage
by Martina Reisz Newberry
First, there was a thousand years of famine,
then a moment of surplus. Death’s flawless
dreams waited for our silent coming. We
bloomed—black Narcissus on a bruised and
desecrated desert. We set the clocks
for the earth to explode under us.
We ignored the signs, transfused the wounded
with tainted blood and gave medicines that
dissolved the bones of our brothers. We cut
open our sisters’ bodies and placed bitter
leaves in their wombs. We polished our own hearts
with aluminum salts borrowed from the
cellars of devils. We delivered fears
and fevers and the certainty of God’s
malicious ending. Where death lay sleeping,
we woke death up to sort our morals from
our memories. We, the conquerors of
cracked earth and merciless yellow sky, moved
on without apology and death stayed
behind, where we left it. All this, all this,
we cried, we did for Peace.
End of the poem
15 random poems
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- A Gogyohka and the Forgotten Panopticon
- A Man Young And Old: VII. The Friends Of His Youth by William Butler Yeats
- Hospital Barge At Cerisy by Wilfred Owen
- If By Chance Your Eye Offend You poem – A. E. Housman
- Kore by Robert Creeley
- At The Close Of The Canvass poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Polar Koala Bear by Robby Charters
- A Slumber did my Spirit Seal by William Wordsworth
- On a Sea Fight, Which the Author was in, Betwixt the English and Dutch by William Wycherley
- Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle by William Wordsworth
- House For Sale by Vinita Agrawal
- When Love Is Over
- Epitaph In Three Parts by Sylvia Plath
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