Benghazi Graves -2012 Poem by Sanjay Mehta

As the light dawns
On knights in graves
Who fought
For cause
Not known
Not known, to them
For whom they fought

And seventy years hence,
On a dark moonless night
Those vivid shadows
Overtook the darkness of moonless night
Razed, ravaged those graves
Whose habitants home had made
Prayed they
Oh Lord!
Direct them
With gumption.
Help them leave their bodies
In environs
Where
Their childhood was not plundered