by Mac McGovern

Created on: May 01, 2009

The Body

I look upon the body

that once protected life,
a body torn, ravaged,
unable to protect any
longer.

I survey the damage
as life escapes multiple
penetrations of the bodies
armor into hard ground,

soon,

absorbed and hidden
from future sight.

I gaze upon the face,
once beautiful, barely
recognizable.

My gaze wonders from this body,
before me,

more bodies strewn
across an estranged landscape.
A landscape unprotected from hate.

Bodies soon to be packed away,
forgotten, replenished by new
bodies destined to share
the same fate.

Destroyed by their fellow man.

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