Welcome To Blood City
That day
Concrete skies
Sang siren harmony
The metal spear upsurge pierced the clouds
That rain with crimson dust
Down poured catastrophe,
Fire charred the steel and brickwork graves
In their unfeasibly twisted sprawl.
And those people,
Their flesh
Rag doll ripped
In splayed defile of innocence, like nothing,
Sacrificed to some black hole creed,
Wasted by fanatical sons,
Who care not for the sanctity,
Nor precious yield of life.
Once more,
The vultures
Of neo-corruption
Ply their pig-sick violence and murderous trade,
This necrotic afterbirth of Babylon’s whore,
Craven abominate filth, cancer
On the scarred face
Of a world they never made.
Welcome to
Blood City
Then,
But beware, you jackals that slope slyly,
Hyenas sniffing carrion in the dark harbours,
The sea of human souls in
These streets, these squares, these pavilions
Will drown you.
Welcome to
A lesson in
History,
Bear witness to the handiwork of adversity,
The outcome of the politics of terror,
For true humanity always unites to repulse,
Unifies in synchronised visions of faith and hope,
Resolves…you lose.
Copyright © Tony Bush | Year Posted 2005
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