Welcome To This Place Where Brother Kills Brother Poem by RIC BASTASA

volcanoes erupt
and magma flows and
all the sea and land
becomes covered
with stone

earthquakes come and
tsunamis are born
and another race of
humanity shall be effaced
from the faces of this
earth

cataclysms
orgasmic violence
raptures and departures
brokenness of landscapes
rigged beauties
plundered floors of
oceans shun

structures and men
nature and humanity
man and earth
and sky and mountains

do not be amazed
violence is a stair
you simply have to step
and rise and arrive
to the room of our
final destination

sleep and rest and
be prepared for another
day of violence.

it is normal and they
do not deny that so must
we accept without any
feeling of remorse

welcome to this place
where brother kills brother
where every line divides
a territory
where gates and fences fail
to solve what is in and what
is out.