Bloodless raptors over north Waziristan

The unpardonable slaughtering of
family and faith, the vital birthstones of
olive and roseate,
hallowed in the humble hands of the
shepherd of North Waziristan,
covered in harsh layers of foreign dirt by
ambivalent charcoal cowboys.
Maneuvering through untamed mountainous terrain
theses bloodless birds of prey,
Mar's and Kali's hellish effigies of the eagle,
operate their heinous missions of indiscriminate death and paralysis
from remote nests.
Steel wing raptors fly above sovereign boarders and established law
raining sterling flames with impersonal virtual ease
guffawing as the poor shattered squirter runs for cover,
relishing every distant bugsplat.

Secluded in their holes, the white livered mice shirk responsibility,
offering local state officials promises of treasury filled peanut shells
in exchange for staking claim to these armchair massacres.

Our own inhumane cowardice birthing vengeful martyrs
seeking an equal blind eye, keeping the sterile, desensitized
capital driven war machine alive

poem by Gregory Allen Uhan
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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