Missile

by Obscure   Jan 6, 2020


Spinning, hurtling, tumbling through the air
The pointed nose, the tail so bright
Will warm a child's bones tonight

Crash, smash, demolish as if we don't care
The desert chill becomes a blaze
Marred bodies missing their faces

Scorch, consume, flaming we go to the grave
Their hunger is cured for their souls went away
Now red comes the morning and bleak is the day

- Obscure
© 2020

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  • 4 years ago

    by Poet on the Piano

    There's almost an air of being aloof in this, the cold, gruesome truth standing on its own and not covered up in reasons or explanations. It's just destruction. A carnal desire almost. That hunger now satiated.

    Chills reading this. I think how so many regard the missiles and other types of weapons with wonder and awe, when in reality, it's this. This bleak feeling of emptiness. The graves expected.

  • 4 years ago

    by Ben Pickard

    Highly descriptive and visual writing. Well done and all the best,

    Ben

  • 4 years ago

    by prasanna

    Nominated.

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