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-750,000 in Rwanda (Free verse) by ALChemy

See how the Tutsi sleep dead in heaps and still they lie there where they die. Too many for the census takers, calculators, estimators. Too many for the senses to take. Hear our silence serenade the merciless raid. The order's called. The triggers pulled. The flash, the bang, the flesh explodes. and in the air the smell still hangs of a rotting sweetness in churches and streets. wreaking our futures bleakness Touch the ground unsettled ground desecration abound There are more bodies than bullet shells stabbing children snapping thier necks. Save the bullets for mom and dad. Kids are easier to kill.

ALChemy 12-Jun-05/6:50 PM
If it did not effect you eleven years ago you're probably a sadistic fuck who tortures little animals for pleasure. No poem could possibly capture the true horror and sadness of what happened there. This poem is just an echo to remind you that such terrible things did take place. It doesn't hit YOU hard. Try not to be so arrogant as to speak for everyone. It's just your opinion. It's vagueness allows you to incorperate your own experiences instead of insisting you feel sorry for one family. It asks you to put yourself in this place and see it how you may. Of course it's moralistic would you prefer I take the side of the Hutu or the many governments that insisted it wasn't happening. Or just pretend I'm not pissed at both. In the end this poem is written by me for me as all poems are. If you can't see it, hear it and feel it the way I do that only means that your not like me. Those places you listed at the bottom can all be pasted over the name Tutsi in the poem if you want to see that it's all part of a much bigger picture.




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