on numbers

These are people you talk of
With flesh ripped from bones
Life’s blood running in gutters
These are homes you survey
Now brick and dust
These their towns and villages
Your rockets reduce to desert
Fruit left to rot in orchards
Of splintered wood

~

n.b. I am not taking sides as if this were a sport. Hundreds have died in Lebanon because of Israeli rocket strikes, hundreds. Stop the killing. Stop the murder of innocents. Stop. Stop. Stop.

CLP 25/09/2024