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A rest with no nightmares
...I was dying, but not dead yet
how could I blame them
of my early burial
War is an ugly fuck
where you are done quickly...
In the embrace of the dark
I thought that the death
had to be done that way
the void, oblivion and silence
The remote sound of a shovel
the clods falling on my face
through my eyes, nose and mouth
the psalms of a priest
in the distance, above
I was dying, not dead yet...
but how could I blame them
of my early burial
War is an ugly fuck
where you are done quickly
So here I am below
with my last fragments
of memories:
the gaze of my victims
in a desert of a dying sun
the howling of Ghibli
deflagrations of combat
All at supersonic speed
such as smart bombs
on slums
camouflage for the round-up
charred bodies of combatants
of Women and Childrens
in the wreckage consumed
And thick smoke in the lungs
pitch-black smoke
the same color of the earth
as a blind eternity
from which I was swallowed
Enough horror, my Lord!
I wanted to shout
but it was impossible
with the ground in the throat
Then, slowly I blew out
and the darkness took over
what a relief
peace of eternal rest dark
if this is death ...
that she may be blessed
Now you can abandon,
poor soldier,
in the rest without nightmares
Which you have well deserved.
how could I blame them
of my early burial
War is an ugly fuck
where you are done quickly...
In the embrace of the dark
I thought that the death
had to be done that way
the void, oblivion and silence
The remote sound of a shovel
the clods falling on my face
through my eyes, nose and mouth
the psalms of a priest
in the distance, above
I was dying, not dead yet...
but how could I blame them
of my early burial
War is an ugly fuck
where you are done quickly
So here I am below
with my last fragments
of memories:
the gaze of my victims
in a desert of a dying sun
the howling of Ghibli
deflagrations of combat
All at supersonic speed
such as smart bombs
on slums
camouflage for the round-up
charred bodies of combatants
of Women and Childrens
in the wreckage consumed
And thick smoke in the lungs
pitch-black smoke
the same color of the earth
as a blind eternity
from which I was swallowed
Enough horror, my Lord!
I wanted to shout
but it was impossible
with the ground in the throat
Then, slowly I blew out
and the darkness took over
what a relief
peace of eternal rest dark
if this is death ...
that she may be blessed
Now you can abandon,
poor soldier,
in the rest without nightmares
Which you have well deserved.
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