Unthinking Thoughts

Smokedust hangs
in burning black-hearted air;
rubble collapses,
stone shifts and mutters,
full-fed on blood and ash.
<No more.>
The dead burn,
the glass melts,
plastic and steel run
like water; rotten heat-haze
shimmers against innocent blue sky.
<No more.>
Let it end here;
bury the bodies
and rebuild the skyscrapers,
but let the blood and death
end here, end now.
<No more.>
Leave the thoughts
of war and slaughter
behind, release them
into the smoking air
with the ashes of dreams.
<No more.>
Please, no more.
Let the blood end here.
Let the death end here.
Let the wars end here.
Let peace begin here.
<No more.>





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