Self-Destruction

Are not the meaning
of the words
Foreign Policy
WAR
Secret
Domestic
or otherwise
Are They Not
Hollow

Butchery
Savagery
Barbarism
are the true meanings
of the word
War
trained to be
Emotionally Detached
from what we once
held dear
Our humanity
as we look apon
Our
collateral damage
A Child
lovingly stroking
mummy's face
just her
broken head
on her lap
a single tear
a lonely splash
on mummy's face
that's growing colder
as the rats
become
a little bolder
praying
as we close the door
in our head
to lose the key
that which
we can never

Throw Away

as we try
to ignore
by distraction

The Pain