time is broken
shattered moments
scattered
into hours
refined
into minutes
such great rifts
one split second
reckoned as we blink
reckless war is chosen
think ghastly horror
wrapped in this killing gift
echoing barbaric battle cries
torching the world with war
invading with scorching terror
belching tanks and feral jets
rafts and columns of killing machines
crass razor guided armies
dressed in delinquent inhumanity
firing laser guided propaganda
crying missiles and prying gun ships
brutes wielding tormenting cruel
fools loudly speaking
history now hates you
all you megalomaniacs
haunted by your heartless efforts
shattering the world to bloody pieces
so much political chatter
what about encouraging world peace
you and your war machines
apparently humanity
abhors blood thirsty maniacs
every crazed regime
earns its wicked place
branded by an immoral piece of wretched
war crimes standing with a brutal face
tracing unshackled misguided dreams
yet hell bangs on every bunker door
notwithstanding immortal situations
a fatal curse on corrupt war
battles conjure death and destruction
marching with fascist orders
tomes dictating lost soul instruction
such a perverse parasitic nature
crawling out of rotting poems and bloated earth
undoubtedly every warcrime feature
your final solution thinking is tainted
dictator you and your reviled kind
attacking innocence and human subjects
consistently each tragic end
a cause of enraged barbarism
engaging battlefield hatred
staged by human barbaric stature
rage and destruction will blind you
blast open your bunker door
instigated death will find you
delegate your mindlessness
relegate fascist grins and chuckles
dictators breathe their last
lying dead upon a bloodied floor
hung in a central square
pummeled to blood sausage paste
so you think you can stand
lifted by trending greed and viral hate
thinking grand empire
grinning at hell's vile entrance
break you before a mortal golden gate
destiny entranced by willful fate
warriors and mercenaries warring
fire demons wielding anti-peace
corrupt time seals every fateful date
this stop watch world turns clocks back
blame dictators for total war
lust for power instilled in every attack
punishment and more
retire this humanitarian disgrace
stare into your smoky parlour mirror
take a stern hard look
all this old burning history
I can't help but wonder
will we recognize ourselves
parts of us that we held so dear
seems so much is misery and mystery
every peaceful connection
ripped and blasted apart
despots with their total war infection
speaking with an inflection of missiles
grief lives in every bombed out street
leaving and hiding seems futile
bunker busting bombs are dropping
this is where death and sorrow meet
creative rivers of bloodshed and terror
advancing cruelty never stopping
it is severity we should ponder
where should sympathy lie
could we sincerely try compassion
are horror and fear just another fashion
does hatred allow peace to be clear
so here we are
existing in invented flawville
surrounded by milieus of human intention
if it weren't for flaws in flawville
perfection wouldn't be imagined
war would be a self-destructive convention
I ask myself
how can evil happen
burying bodies and bloodied dreams
can't we help ourselves
correct misshapen time
another nightmare it seems
so it comes down to identity
who and what we are as human beings
precariously it comes down to indemnity
broken time is what we're seeing
here we are wanting freedom
crunching numbers into time
distilling hours into minutes
dividing the world
into what is yours
and what is mine
surely sometime in the future
after God stops by to cry
human beings envisioning the sublime
timeless scenes of homo sapiens
rediscovering creative fire

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