Sunday, 4 May 2025

Unmarked grave

 


Unmarked grave,

what stories

do you hold buried underneath?

What lays below your soil?

Is it too scary to be saved?

Does it only come

out at night?

When the moon

is hiding in fright,

behind clouds

of the darkened sky,

or do you hold instead,

A story that would

put a mark of shame above

people's heads?

 

Unmarked grave,

do you hold within

a monster or being?

A creature so depraved

that it needs to be kept

unbothered,

in an unkempt space,

with no hope of humanity

coming into contact. Is it being kept

hidden by you?

Or is it true,

that they buried

the truth?

Are you

+ just a way

of keeping it out of view?

 

Unmarked graves.

So many sit

just waiting

to be claimed,

burial pits,

waiting

for their remains

to be named.

To have their

stories read.

To find how

they wound up here,

buried and dead.

 

Unmarked grave,

burial by bulldozer.

Execution without trial.

Man, woman, child,

lay with screams

etched to faces.

We can lie in denial,

but can we live with

the innocent cries,

when we know that

those unjust wars

caused this.

Can we just ignore the whys

when they show nothing

but the hatred of man?

 

Unmarked grave,

where is the shame?

The crimes of man,

seldom reported

by those that profit

from the blood

on their hands.

Bombs shatter

the still quiet

of this enclave.

No one is safe.

How can we trust,

in a world that

is so unfair

and unjust.

 




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