Man made madness
Kahtan Kibasi 1942
We sat late in our lives
Watching madness returns
The old and the young have
Nowhere to hide
In the early hour of dawn
Man and his machines came out
To show we never change
Destruction and death are our currency
We can’t talk, we wouldn’t understand
We are born to kill man, child, beast
And destroy the land
Now the land is burnt, the children
Uprooted and alone
I ask me now what have they done
Where is the gain, where is charity
We kill humanity
We live in absolute in insanity
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Man, war and destruction in real time action
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Written on February 24, 2022
Submitted by Poetry@80 on February 25, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 493 |
Words | 100 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
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