A Starving Dog.
They flee on desperate legs
…sacks of pots and pans
The hungry dogs, the mothers.. .boys and girls
and smaller ones
They run and run.
Yet still they got the two year old
The adult men blast at the the little head
the unarmed child ,
is dead and in the dust with
blasted scattered bones
twisted with baby hands
and baby heart as still
as stone to perish on the ground.
Those adult men with boots and gun
shot off the baby’s head.
This unarmed child is bodiless in death
Hey look…here comes more weaponry
In dirty dollar drums..
The little head is eaten now
The starving dog in hunger has succumbed.
Kristine Byrne 27th July 2014 (revised 2015)