So said Nightmare to Despair

So said Nightmare to Despair

Despair met Nightmare;

and was asked: 

‘why are you imitating me?’

And these words Despair had to spare:

‘I looked south;

I was burned to death;

I looked north;

I was slaughtered to vile ends;

I looked west;

My image mirrored in kidnapped souls;

I looked east; where home is,

I was clubbed for mourning my own death;’

Then, Nightmare said to despair, solemn;

You have a sad question to answer:

‘Where is home’?

…………

(April 22, 2015)

(To all souls brutalized at home and abroad.)