Skeletons Left Drowning

A slightly dark poem, please do not read if you're having a good day :)

We're free to point fingers

After the dust has settled

And the bloody ivory crown is claimed

The Nation's Winners

We're left to debate the morality of it

The wishy washy defenses

and the scathing aggressions

To hang the loser above

Show that we are the conquistadors now

For a man is nothing without

His Nation's Strengths

We're devoted to ironing the truth

Making it 1-dimensional

easy to understand and grasp

a black and white conflict of good and evil

a thesis statement in an essay of evil

Establish that the winner's ever hold god's righteousness

For he is powerless without

His Nation's Defenders 

We're able to sit here and discuss the destruction

And hope to put an to our inflicted misery

Because we do not consider the victims

The skeletons shambling above and below

Skeletons of the souls left behind in our weary nation

That they will never see rest in their undead lives again

Their eyes are bored open

Doomed to witness the folly of man once again

Watching embers from our ceaseless hatred of ourselves,

cradled and preserved

How they wish they could smother them all right now

But they can't

They are skeletons living with man

Skeletons of a nation ripped apart, living on shreds

And the skeletons below

Bones piled to the endless heavens

Arranged in sickly pyres

A pyre to our humanity 

Such innumerable number of deaths

That is no Tartarus

Only an ocean of blood

Metallic and suffocating

Hades is drowning in his own depths of hell

We forget these skeletons

And their memories burned down into the ground

We forget because we harry no dead man's tale

Because in the ecstasy of winning

We forget our Nation's greatness weakness

Ourselves

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Poetic Beauty]

Conflict and war alway have innocent victims that we don't want to think about or discuss. We pretend these "skeletons" don't exist but they do.