Cacophony's Echo: Lament for Gaza

The bombs rain down, a cacophony of death
Annihilating dreams and stealing breath
While western eyes turn blindly from the fray
Content in apathy to look away
What dies in Gaza when the smoke clears?
Not just the bereft amidst their tears
But the façade of moral decency  
That gives lie to claims of empathy

Who mourns for children lost too soon?
Bereft of future, nipped before they bloom
Not those who hoard the bombs and planes
To visit death on unarmed, blameless branes
The myth expires of conscience in the west
Replaced by selective blindness at its best
For some lives lost they’ll not expend a tear
If geopolitics makes their bias clear

What else perishes ‘neath Gaza’s rubble?
The hubris of assumed western infallibility
When children’s limbs are torn, it’s plain to see
Those "civilized" are but barbarians in disguise
With cultured masks that cover savage lies
The myth expires of humanity’s reach worldwide
No universal kinship, such dreams have died
In the dust of buildings smashed beyond repair
Death swooping in to fill the vacant air  

The bombs still fall on school and home
Erasing every hopeful tome
Silencing laughter, play, and start
Ripping apart the beating heart
For killers half a world away
‘Tis but a surgical display
Though blood soaks broken blocks
Apathy is Orthodoxy’s locks  

Who stops to think of parents mourning?
Treasured sons and daughters without warning
Expunged from life, no chance for goodbye
With body bags, memorials, graves to cry
The myth of shared humanity, expired
Empathy for some, for others mired
In refusal to admit blind extremism’s cost
When nameless “others” count as value lost

What dies in rubble-filled neighborhoods?
The façade of moral rectitude
That claims civility but spreads unfair pain
When nameless casualties do not make headlines
Compassion ends at comfort’s edge  
And apathy holds sway instead
When suffering happens over there
To people for whom nobody seems to care

The bombs fall ceaseless through the night
Mercilessly expunging life and light  
But the sleeping west turns a blind eye
To the nameless victims who lived, suffered, and died
And the myth of universal kinship fades to black
When faceless foreigners come under attack  
And great powers lift not a hand to intervene    
For silent, endless dirges for the unseen

Do the killers fatigue as they end existence?
Does the west feel a chill in their soul’s distance?
Or is it just one more news piece forgotten fast
Banal statistics from a foreign past    
The mythical web of shared humanity torn
When death and loss become abstract, forlorn    
Just nameless tragedies on a far shore
That ask no reckoning, no memories stored   

What dies in the rubble’s catastrophic toll?
The façade of superior morality’s control
That lets the “civilized” act friendly and kind
Yet turn cruelly blind, numb, deaf and blind
The myth of universal kinship, expired
Empathy allotted only as required
For nameless, faceless, dehumanized masses
Forgotten lives dismissed without eulogies or rosaries  

The bombs fall endlessly through day and night
Mercilessly expunging hope and light
But the apathetic west cares not to see
The unmarked graves unmourned for eternity
And the myth of shared humanity fades to black
When silent foreigners come under attack
TheirNames unwritten, their faces not shown  
Their unmarked graves remain, unwept, unknown































   The poem is part of a full version found in the book “Homo Sapiens” Part Part I - XVIII, written by Mawphniang Napoleon. This book is part of the popular “Homo Sapiens” book series, which can be purchased online at various online bookstores, such as Amazon. The book is available for purchase for those who are interested in reading the complete version of the poem. Remember to get all the books from the “Homo Sapiens” series, as well as other books by the same author.   So, don’t hesitate and get a copy today from one of the many online bookstores.   Khublei Shihajar Nguh,  (Dhanewad  )(Thank you )