Bodies in the street
The last touch
Before they left the universe;
The last touch
Before they are gone forever,
Was the frozen hard ground.
Bodies abandoned
In the street
With no-one to care,
No-one to provide that final embrace.
Left to freeze
In the icy street
With no warmth
In those last seconds;
No human touch
No final goodbye.
Opher – 13.3.2022
I wrote this in response to the scenes of Russian soldiers left strewn across a city street, abandoned and uncared for.
Their body heat seeps into the ground until they become frozen lifeless lumps of meat.
They, and the thousands of Ukrainian citizens and soldiers killed by the Russians, were disposed of in mass graves dug by machines.
Death has lost all humanity.