Short Dehumanize Poems

How to rehumanize the dehumanized?
That is the crux of the problem.
A perplexing question.
A philosophical quandary.
Let’s not dehumanize them in the first place an eight-year-old suggested.
What does a child know? 
Said one of the ninety-year old -decision makers in the senate....

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They say that at 5:00 p.m.
   the dead come back to life
Were they actually dead --
   Do they really revive? 

Also, that sleep is a taste of death
   Pray tell, is it?
Does it taste like death?

We don't know what Death is
   We imagine it as best we can
Anthropomorphize it, as we do G-d
   We dehumanize, demystify -- Pity, that!...

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The war game begins.
You hide the sex behind
the hedge. The power

has gone for sale. Bury 
your face in colloquies
for an internal search.

A native pain invades the
mannequins. The fine dust
of lies covers the nudity.

Do you need a war stimulant
to dehumanize the killer ? He
dragged the kid by hair and

shot point-blank. The saliva
uncoils. You start spitting
everywhere and on the face of god.


Satish Verma...

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Driven by hunger's thirst
I wade through the pasts fallen,
With blood dripping over my eyes
I see devils posing as the guardians of peace.

I step forward blindly
To look into the beast's eyes
I falter; he is a reflection of me
A mirror to the hate of being.

How to dehumanize a face?
In the hopes of forgetting my own
I walk towards realities looking glass
Remove my eyes-- shattering the stranglehold
For the reality I see comes from the beast in me....

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