October Poems 2024 >> when hunger no longer finds pity

October Poems 2024  
A poem for each day of the month in which I was born  
 
October 13  
when hunger no longer finds pity    
 
my bongo plays Congo,  
Palestine is all mine:  
the war is a scar, singular  
to people whose feeble  
outcrying, while dying,  
touches earth's perpendicular.  
 
when hunger no longer  
finds pity, the city,  
of cruelty, fashions a feast;  
when borders, by orders,  
jab braces in faces,  
what little is left for the least!  
 
young babies with rabies,  
hounded and surrounded  
by k-9s:  no mother, no breast,  
to heed them and feed them,  
or hold them and scold them,  
or save them from orphan arrest.  
 
poor widows, like shadows,  
come crawling and bawling  
for spouses, whose douses of war  
have left them bereft, when  
the smoke, in its choking,  
has cleared from the wicked sandbar.  
 
how gory the story  
of human inhuman  
agenda! Defender of Light,  
make haste, less this waste  
should deplete us; o treat us  
with mercy that makes all things RIGHT.  
 
© Copyright 2024 October 13  
by Clyve A. Bowen♫