Sunday, 2 June 2019

Blazes


We saw from the hilltop
Rome and London ablaze
Ashurbanipal’s library 
Writhing in flames
Ur and Damascus
Torched to the ground

And today this Buddhist monk
Who set himself on fire
Was like standing there 
to watch the world burn
 

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