Requiem
I saw death
unannounced and without reservation
stain the contemporary lives
of an impervious nation
I saw an intolerable hatred
the ruddy signature of an ancient heathen
assign death
as if to proudly bare the emblem
of heavenly consent
I saw the cold pictures of silence
unsuspecting faces crying
children clutching memories
a city gasping for answers
as life was used to extinguish life
beneath an ashen epitaph
of our darkest day
I saw murder
a human legacy
begotten not by time nor place
but by human nature
I saw another requiem
of religion
Copyright © Xavier Keough | Year Posted 2005
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