It's Here & Now

If you see it,
If you smell it,
If you feel it,
If you hear it,
How can it not be there?

If you see it,
ribs showing,
scar littered bodies,
water, earth, fire start a war,
children, no parents,
eyes with pain,

If you smell it,
tang of blood,
squalor and feces,
decay of idealized hopes,
lungs full of ashes,
bodies rotting.

If you feel it,
earth rumbling,
people losing faith,
bonds of love shattered, torn,
some lost in their minds,
bodies rebelling,

If you can hear it,
winds whistling,
screaming, crying,
houses of peace gone,
words of fear, hate,
muzzle blasts,

How can it not be there,
some losing, some gaining,
the end of the end,
facing truth,
stuck, no denials left,
the ultimate second chance.

S.D. (poem 27.8.2011; picture 2011) Original