The Cauldron

Booming canons, marching soldiers
To the doldrums of unrest-
Firing rifles, aghast beholders!
In the fangs of their tempest;
A muffled mob-stacked on the trill of terror-
Ruffled away, astray, aground!-
Astray, astray-the earth's composure-
Aground-its terrorized, its treasured.

March, march, march! to the Belarusian border
Must assassinate, they are no brothers-
Crusaders! Fie on you, Pierrots jester-like
Roosters battling-a dramatic fight!

Beavering; to choose the weaker for sacrifice-

To slaughter the one weaker, to scoop out his eyes-
To witness in bliss, his dawdling demise!-

The carmine earth, the medieval mirth
Wrap their claws 'round history, in strife
The scabbard swaddles the device to kill-
Whose bullets pierce the baffled bulletins!
Their recalcitrance! The ordeal!

Unlock it!-Man's flawless machine,
Waltz away to the boomerangs of insanity-
O Gladiators on the battlefield!

A Satanic grudge!-
A penultimate purge!
The cacophony of the mind-
Before Silence takes over

Its indoctrinated ambiguity

In its inevitable certainty,
The clash of the creeds!
A bifurcation of the breed-
This anthropological mystery!

You composed hymns of our unity!-
Lo! Fie, fie, fie!-

Symbolic of fear!-of a nauseatic fear,
Adolf's teeny-weeny mustache-
Emanates from which, this great hysteria,
Of being reduced to the dusty Jewish ash!

It bends and it drops,
The pronunciation of baldergash!-
Anthologies of gibberish, too cumbersome the ideals
A hollow corpse of Humanity-
Eh! the odor of flesh, do you feel?

"Oh, yes, Jew, O you, you I'll bash,
Your peckish bod into the face of Holocaust!"

Horrendous, the dearth of Kinship's bond-
A cannibal mutation;

Roosters beavering, a comical battle!-
Jesters of the arbitrary fight,

Bloody- to the spectator's delight!
Repeat the drill in warfare today-
And behold! on nightmares alight.

Kill, kill, kill without falter!
O nestor's battalion-crusaders, druggards!-
Inebriating!-the game bloodied and battered
Oh, this great, colossal manslaughter!
An annihilating sight!

An indistinguishable red-its upturn chronicled
In history's yellowed pages of parchment,
The sheets of forgetfulness!-the ricochet, the rebellion!
Frozen into stagnation-the altruistic aeon,
As the termites ate their voice, and the dust concealed their coffins,
The tales they bespoke-cremated under the print
Of poetries, of romance, of fantasies
Of the kalopsia beguiling-

Cremated the lessons bespoken

Today, reopened-the frenzied blood flow!-
Repeating itself, an old refrain, its lyric aglow:

Horrendous, the dearth of Kinship's bond-
A cannibal mutation;

They weave their opus-a maneater, monster-
Dire rapacity of blood splatter!
Its fabrication-a regurgitation of the gutter-
It gnaws at and extracts the blood and jus
It devours and gobbles up the Earth's sinew-
And when all is done and dusted, O harebrained!-
We'll declare it, yes,-the opus of Warfare.

Horrendous, the dearth of Kinship's bond-
A cannibal mutation;

What a grief!-a gibberish!
To witness imbeciles-
Toppling into flames-furnishing their Holocaust
Complaisant-of their mirthy must-
This poignant parody!
Devouring flesh, devouring sanity;
To Demise, their pirouette-
Till Death's dear embrace
Stillness' snare,
Sweet silence

The Pied-Piper's hypnosis!
And money!-the accomplice

O suicidal scavenger!
A slur of the tongue-derogatory,
A stammer of the words-of the gobbledygook!
Of the ideals, the constitution
Of nincompoops-
Of a gamble begrudging

Horrendous, the dearth of Kinship's bond-
A cannibal mutation;

Money!-Lo! money-
Aye, thy great gluttony;
The penny and pound, the seed-the nemesis
The comeuppance-a canker on humanity!

An inherited disease-
Mutilating the species;-
Mutilating the chromosome,
The nucleus, the genes-

Its insobriety-a dizzying disease;
A cavernous cauldron,
Its stupor numbing-the grindstone extracting consciousness-
The gaze of Gorgon!
Transforming into effigies-
Of alabaster, carvings-bereft of life, bereft of prudence-
For they don't think twice before pulling their triggers on children.

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©️ Samriddhi Saha