Observations

South Sudan

Forsaken land

Mired in uncivil war

As if war is ever civil

The beast in man

Is found across the span

Of time.

 

What can be said

Of power hunger

Driving leaders mad––

Killing, pillaging great numbers

Leaving in their wake

Thousands, millions dead

Or fled.

 

From Cain and all his ilk

Who caused their sons

To take up arms to take a throne

Whose dulcet deceiving tone

(words and voices soft as silk)

To modern days, their evil choice

Leave only ash and bones.

 

The homes to nourish, raise and care

No longer there.

The children safe nowhere

What cause disrupts the sanctity

Of family with impunity?

South Sudan, you stand

As emblem of this tortured age

Fostering disruption, rage.