Apamea, Calah, Hatra

ripped apart

thousands of years

of civilisation, culture,

history, ordinary life

destroyed, stolen

the roots

digged up and torn away

memory

identity

bulldozed drilled hacked

Year Zero

Weep for the loss

of generations past

to all generations to come

us, our self-created iconoclasts

weep not for us

in anger

comdemn these two halves

of the same evil

the colonialist

and the iconoclast

feeding from the same

twisting body

09.03.2015