the love we found
(the loss profound)
was in their opened eyes

(a poem of mourning
by
an uncle left bereft,
framing nameless ashes)

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more precious, irretrievable gifts
added to the horrendous,

unforgivable litany

spiriting away
countless millions
of
innocent and heaven sent

(wilfully dehumanised)

disremembered lives

solely for the swollen shut

(beasts unleashed
 on
 battlefield earth

 "police" that brutal
 rutted strut)

pride mined,
profit hopped

respect for "others"

roundly dropped

mirror slipped,
"good"ness slopped

humanity's
last
chopping block

heated oceans
cindered rock

empathy
gone
out of stock

charity sanctioned

independence blocked

time running out
on
the vengeance clock

reality deserted
and
truth gone

soundless

popularity's circus

conformitied
and
foundless

(pew hewed simplicity's

 corruption cupped complicity)

wholly unholy

(bleached and mindless)

"freedom™ and democracy™'s

soulless duplicity.

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