ENTIRE FAMILIES ERASED WHILE I (AND YOU, ALL OF YOU) SLEEP

The early afternoon dims,

and sleep comes

enticing after twenty hours,

offering

oblivion from which

to return

to some evening hour

not as half bright

as this half-clouded moment,

and deaths,

deaths will be many

while I sleep,

families erased,

entire families

that live in fear

now 

then dead,

the fears coming true

while I sleep, safe,

children now smiling

getting a bowl of soup

announced dead,

their bodies

laying on hospital corridors

in white shrouds,

wailing survivors

embracing them

if there are any surviving,

this for six hundred days

and the 'West' that shouted

"Never Again!"

for seventy-eight years

watches and allows,

"Never Again!"

now understood

not to include people

who are brown or black

or yellow or

otherwise

not worthy to be cared

about or saved.

09.-14.05.2025