Bullets pouring like rain
upon holy gold
fire upon scripture
five rivers of blood
a mother weeps
a child screams
a father vanishes
villages set ablaze
wiped clean of life
scattered bones and debris
stain cold gray patches
amidst vivid green earth
sisters raped
brothers mangled
truckloads
of bodies
upon bodies
upon bodies
thrown into canals
flooded by death
corruption trickling down
from the top rung
hiding behind shades of
lies
perpetrating a genocide
yet we will forever challenge
the raging darkness
we will not let it settle
ashes, ashes
we won’t fall down
