Colin Mitchell Williams Poet Free verse

The Forgotten

The Forgotten ?

To live with this conscious contusion
and forget how babies cry

Become so untouched by horror
commonplace a communion with nothing

Care less for hunger
and wish the lacerations pestilent

Abjure the reminder
and seek instead disjunction so cognitive

Every scream drowning
in the approbate applause of spectators

By percentage defame intelligence
and baluster half-whit

Better to forget how babies cry
and how a child's innocence
can be turned into cold splattered meat

Better to recount such heroic deeds
and send the fools battalion to complete them

All laid to burials garden, the disregarded
faceless unnamed the forgotten

And for a price
no soulless may seek redemption

Such a carnage is wrought in the heart
and may brand us all unforgiven

Echoes still the terror
impudent inflicted the weak transgressor

But dragged all to quivering knee
with its spike so driven by denial

Better to forget how babies cry
and how a child's innocence
can be turned into cold splattered meat

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