Life in the distant arid lands is fragile and snuffed all too quickly by the so-called freedom warriors of the government in Khartoum.


The Horses

Through village beaten pathway
Past dried cracked walls
Grass roof shadows
Black hole doors
Hidden wide eyes of fear

The horses are running
Panic before them
Torching destruction
Old people falling
They cry with no tear

Celebration of hatred
Fire tongues kiss death
The air disappearing
Shimmering empty
Through clearing haze

Only the black poles charred
Point to the guilty
Once shaded the children
Now ravaged in ash
Only the vulture lazily turning




Poetry by Adrian Wood
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Written on 2012-02-05 at 21:02

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