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POETRY
Carcasses
Because ‘never again’ is happening before our eyes!
bludgeoned + battered
they were left to die
on the side of the road
that once led to their neighborhood
adjacent to the mosque
that once existed, but now too is gone
under the rubble of the building
that used to house their home
crippled + maimed
they were left to perish
in a hospital with not enough beds
or surgeons or nurses or medical equipment
or latex gloves or clean bedsheets
or sterilized operating tools
or morphine to ease pain
destitute + fearful
they were left to succumb
to infectious diseases
that could have been prevented
and could have been treated
had their lives been deemed worthy
abandoned + helpless
children are without their mothers
their sisters, their brothers, their cousins
they go to sleep without their grandfathers
to sing to them or their grandmothers…
