Muzzle Flash Moments

Muzzle Flash Moments

 

 

Hatred consumes like vandal fires;

liars toss fuel on the flames.

 

Names of peaceful gods; now cries of war.

Fancy flesh is torn away from nude souls.

 

Holes in a flag, holes in a building,

holes in the head of a child.

 

Piles of rocks, piles of dreams,

piles of bodies and ash.

 

Muzzle flash moments;

components of time bombs

 

arranged by clandestine hands.

Demands in smoke, peace restored,

 

swords slid back into their sheaths.

Beneath the red shiny apple skin,

worms have consumed the sweet truth.

 

Cease the violence, cease the movement,

cease the will to be free.

 

We kill, we die,

we surrender, we fall

 

back into the graves

from which we arose.

 

There is no life

with a knife to your throat

 

and boots on the necks

of your babies.

 

Fight on!

Author's Note

Was watching this madness in Egypt, and this is what came to my mind.

Reviews

[Kerry O'Connor]

Personally I love the moments in history when the worm turns... and the oppressed strike out against the oppressor. In no way do I condone the random violence but I understand where the masses are coming from. Too many African countries are bowed under by the weight of dictatorship, and beguiled by the lie of so-called democracy, when every vote is rigged.

[Wolf]

The violence of the world does do alot of damage to our children and our every day lives. i enjoyed reading this very much keep up the great writing

[OT]

it's great reading this now we've heard they've won their fight!! this just screams rebellion - don't take the s**t - this is not life - you make your own damn life so go and bloody fight for it - which they did!! powerful writing RG and love the title!! nice!

[John Jackson (El Juero)]

This is VERY good. Not as abstract as your other work. Poetically direct and to the point. Takes the reader right into Tahrir Square. An excellent telling of a triumphant story.

[Moflo]

Wow the rhythm and tempo of this poem was just awesome. You chose the right words for a powerful powerful read that really holds your images in the most profound way possible. Think this was an amazing write.

[Cocoacandy]

not ur best work, but still good... keep it up!
*cocoabean*

[E.H. Monroe]

this is any war...even one without weapons. this was a verbal fight, a mind match, anything that the lives of these weapons can live in the relity or imagination of the beast that bore it.

i dig it,
Grimace

[Apathy To Empathy]

wonderful write

[.]

. brilliant ... absolutely brilliant ... and so, so powerful ... in a world where poetry and poets are not more important than politics and politicians ... what can we expect ... it's a sad world ...

[Mark]

Will this be the NEXT country's civil war the good ole Big Brother will feel the need to step in and interfere with...which is not to say we haven't already interfered enough with middle Eastern politics...Why can't we let them work their own stuff out, and keep our boys HOME??

Sorry...Didn't really speak to the poem at all, did I? Unless you noted the depth of emotion it incited in me, that is!