Not sure why
USA red
relentlessly white
and not so much blue WholeEarth patriots
have consistently
selflessly supported
medical missionaries
vaccinating against every unmasked
health threatening disease
erupting in tribal life
of darkest social systemic Africa
Yet fail to co-empathically embrace
basic
fundamental
win/win evangelically redemptive
bipartisan public health care
here in domestic
Straight White
USA Christian
flag-waving homes
Where live and breathe
our own at-risk children
And climate threatened grandchildren
And pandemonic RightWing denihilistic
degenerating public and private health prospects
for great grandchildren
Who might hope to survive
for more than another wealthy
humane-divine
nature-spirited century
Sacredly meaningful
unmasked
transparent
and multiculturally vulnerable
co-empathic
polypathic
EarthBound public and private
eco/theo-logical
Celebrating systemic
global inter/inner-connected
good-faith health consciousness.
For the welfare of people
This purpose to fulfill
We stand opposing threats-
For our fatherland’s will.
For law and order, all purely made by madmen,
Completely false
From the beginning to all ends.
Nonexistent to us forsaken by chance
To leave without trace
It's an unforgiving sense.
But-
I'll be
The soldier.
Raid the dunes of sinned warmth
There, a glass tracks my life remaining.
Time is powerful,
With it, I leave home in crestfallen loathing.
In this pandemonic land of length
everyone’s pretending
to have their own strength
As the sky sees us off-
without a wee woven wreath.
We see sands cladding our red spilling
For us to heal in death.
Shaheed-
I am
The Soldier.
Rise in the horizon,
Rise as the dust would and-
Return to our scarred, homely land
Pursuing warmth
In this now banished land
Finally, now at peace
by my very hand
Khatam-
I, was
The Soldier.
Breaking, bashing, creaking, crashing
Pandemonic pounding pain
Reverberating bone to brain
Slamming, smashing, thrumming, thrashing
Mechanical chaotic grate
Echoing; can't concentrate
Scraping, scarring, jangling jarring
Bastard, broken beat becomes
Endless, dreadful demon drums
Maiming, marring, ringing, roaring
Blaring banging babel beats
Repeats, repeats, repeats, repeats
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