Su Ben Poet Free verse

Please, Don'T

please don’t touch me, my body hurts everywhere 
from flying bomb shells
please don’t shoot her, she lost her child 
from a cross fire stray bullet  
please don’t beat him, he lost his son under 
ruthless torture
please don’t violate my sister, she has been 
disgraced like an ancient Sabine woman 

look at that infant snuggling into her mother’s breast 
to suckle milk though she was already dead from starvation 
look at that little boy searching for his father 
under the collapsed building debris  
look at that pack of stray dogs fighting viciously 
among themselves for a piece of rotten flesh from a corpse   

instead, please paralyze that peace-breakers ugly mindset         
instead, please dethrone that evildoer wielding absolute power
instead, please wipe intruders out from the surface of the earth

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