A Thousand Sunsets

A Thousand Sunsets

[In Memory of Fallen Comrades Herein and Beyond]

Tears clog our swollen eyes
Thus denying sight, of dazzling moon
Every darkest hour of despair
Whilst sunken hearts hum hymns
To see off a thousand sunsets...

What do gods crave from us?
The soul of whole clan
or bitter tears of bereft orphans?
We have emptied our pens:
Sacrificed and libated-- in sacred shrines
Painted our doorposts red
To keep the deadly angel at bay;
Why then can't we stop dying
hourly, easily and in clusters like helpless flies?

We have suspended sowing seeds
To sow souls instead--
Slain to appease alien gods
or pave way for our eaters.
We have suspended sowing seeds
To sow helpless souls instead
Who couldn't cling to dear lives
In adverse reign of terror.

... Soon stomachs will rumble
Asking for what isn't there!
We're promised life to feed ballots
Then heads lost heads:
They only serve slow poison and lead
When we near their high tables,
Question their bulging bellies and our protruding bones
Or stare at their swelling pockets.

We die, forever die!

I have heard and seen souls strangled
I will hear and see souls strangled
By the state and fragile invincible foes
On this accursed very soil!
But, with the law digging claws down my throat
Stare on, helpless, enduring
Our eaters spit choking nonsense!

Our sleeps were snatched yesternight
By death song of guns afar
Silencing our comrades
Who had stretched wings afar
To gather light from heads of men.
Their screams tore our sunken hearts;
We wailed, cursed, swore and passed out...

Innocent souls are dished to death
On rugged grey linings to success
Or as sacrificial lambs to some gods
And we mourn our generation--
Eaten away in its infancy
By hungry wolves before uncaring chiefs...
Sending early sunsets--
A thousand sunsets! 

(c) wafula p'khisa