War Poem by ian hall

Have you seen a blown up body
Bits and pieces
Blackened and burnt

Flys buzzing around
Where an arm
and 1/2 a leg used to be

Eyes frozen snapshots
of panic and pain

Someone's full stop
To a sentence
In some twisted narrative

Someone's loved one
Someone who loved
All dead and bloody

I don't really know what this is

Below the images
And the linguistic depictions
The B grade rationalisations

Deep below the mental machinations
Of what caused this
Why it came to be

No not the surface stuff
Of fear jealousy, greed, hatred

or of competition
Politics and religion
Ideology
Philosophy

No no not that simple stuff
Made to sound confusing
And complicated

But the layers below
And deeper again
Behind

The observer
Within
The origin

What is this really
What!