who will wail
in mourning?
God in heaven
must weep
at travesties
wreaked on
humanity by
our inhumanity.
who grieves for
already forgotten?
once innocent
Nigerian school girls
herded like cattle
sold against will
thinly holding dim
hopes of rescue.
who still sorrows
brothers’ conflict?
dating back to
Jacob and Esau
renewed with
deadly rockets
lighting the night
sky over Gaza.
who will cry by
empty coffins?
while body parts
lie neglected and
exposed amid
burned wreckage
of passenger flight
downed in Ukraine.
humankind is
possessed by
an amor mortis;
locked in macabre
gambol with violence;
to whom will death
extend bony fingers,
asking next dance?
“They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious.
‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.” (Jeremiah 6:14)
a poem in my pocket 
Jul 24, 2014 @ 20:24:08
“locked in macabre gambol with violence”. I never heard this madness put into words any better than that.
coal (Fireblossom)
Jul 24, 2014 @ 10:07:45
“Amor mortis,” indeed — how to provide such careful, even loving, details as you do here and not feel that we’re swept up in a romance with awfulness? Yet there seems no way to spurn this dance without going dim. Great precision here.
Jul 23, 2014 @ 18:16:46
amor mortis, indeed. we live in such trying times ~
Jul 21, 2014 @ 01:17:56
seems more horrifying that we move from event to event without time to catch our breath or consider or remember – a time that calls for the voices of poets – thank you – K
Jul 20, 2014 @ 23:52:58
Your words are so true. Today the media focuses on one event, another one tomorrow, but in a few weeks who will remember these wasted lives. And all this makes us feel so powerless.
Jul 20, 2014 @ 22:55:06
Brilliant. The way you bring the Biblical fight into the current battles in Gaza is insightful and your last verse asks the difficult, dark questions we must all ask ourselves at this time.