Humanity Molested Poem by Naleen De Alwis

Holding tight
In a dreadful fright
Of being smashed away, in the bruising darkness
A young soldier among the debris
Feasting ,
Not a shot gun wedding
But, a shot gun shedding.
A toddler trudging, laden with horror
On greasy blood drenched soil
Where the red damp moss
Soaked and thrived in racial blood.
You postponed normalcy
You censored humanity
You gazetted violence
You sowed seeds of bombs
And planted mushrooms in the sky
To reap the flesh of humans.
Hymns, canons parted
Guns, cannons planted
And confronted each other
To crack their skulls
The doctrine of gun culture
A newly born sub culture.
Sojourners gaping at the truncated houses
Under the festooned sky
Clouded with cruise missiles
In the eve of celebrating
Raped desiccated humanity.