Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Kit Kelen #1210 - after the blast


1210
after the blast

no one has claimed
the faith goes on

you won’t kill a thing like that

ages of terror
are all after the event

grip of, gone down

the diagram exploded

the gone are thought so sent

into the church
the mosque
the temple
in the market

bad luck struck

no one remembers what those deaths were for
no one has claimed

someone in a suit and tie
sold them the toys to play

throw bombs
spray bullets
poison water

the king is any head of them
draw, quarter, boil a king

here’s everyone aghast in grief
what good will it do?

in another generation altogether
there’s only to remember the gone

soldier trained to give his life
her life
give blood

outside the ruin

and from a makeshift stage undaunted

the gone are thought so sent
but they are, there is
nowhere now
only thoughts with them

what if excess of love?

there must be some kind of tune to the calling

the map grew stiff with planning it
my country is a corpse

to mesmerize the heart
dead tend to the dead

hell is here with us
so heaven’s full today

the hatred of strangers is always easy
easy to anger the wronged

no one remembers what those deaths were for
no one has claimed

they went to the fire
they went under

take the body of words
of wishes
this we  

be dust and smile

take the body apart

can you imagine
that anger
that hate
?

that there was no other way

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