metaphor

 

every day thousands of humans 

and other creatures die 

by bomb, bayonet, starvation 

 

every day women 

are raped and mutilated 

children beaten and abandoned 

 

every day humans 

push buttons pull triggers sign papers 

that result in the deaths 

of uncounted hundreds of thousands

 

every day we humans 

close our eyes and turn away 

 

this is not metaphor 

every day 

my heart breaks 

 

this is metaphor

~sb

08/12/25