Why is war considered sublime
It is the atrocity of bodies being bodies
and nothing more
Why is it described with such tenderness
-the burning flesh and the smoking bones-
that is all
Is it human to unmask ourselves
And civilization and art and love
and call that revelation
War is the end of history and the genesis of history
The compression of experience
A visceral collision
Of fate meeting fate and of watching the earth boil
And the sky bleed and the loss
and the hurt
And the sublime feeling of being dragged onto the chopping block.
 germanicus2 · Sat Jan 05, 2008 @ 05:53pm · 0 Comments |
