Cities of smoke
Smouldering burning
Blazing In a configuration
Of stone concrete steel
And human flesh
Cities of rubble debris wreckage
Of rubbish and broken homes
Pasted with remains
With the white bones of children
Cities crackling baking raging
Into the nights of nothingness
Into the torched dawns of annihilation
Proclaiming the time of the beast
Announcing the apocalypse
The undoing of ten thousand years of civilization
Cities of broken young
Villages of violated children
Wailing distraught mothers
Helpless raving fathers
cities of staring graves
Gaping old men and mutilated women
I had not thought that death has undone so many
That the earth grows corpses
Cities of smoke and shards of concrete
Forging against the nothing
Sacrilegious sculptures hewn out of terror
What is that sound high in the air
Murmurs of maternal lamentation
| The houses of the poor stand inviting like |
Skeletons stabbing the collapsed horizons
Piercing the fallen firmament
Spearing the stars in their spheres
Through the cascading stardust of blood.
©Alisar Iram
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