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Updated:Tue. Mar. 21, 2006
 

Creative Writing

Broken Images

24/08/2004 

What remains of a little girl with dimpled cheeks—

yesterday’s darling of the village school—

only a small pink hand laced with crimson

astonishingly salvaged from the pieces of flesh

strewn around at a dazzling celebration of death

in the echoing streets of Fallujah—

a gift to the Poor from the Rich and Free.


The Vicar of Christ in a wheel chair,

clad in sacramental white

holds out his trembling hand

to greet the Commander of history’s biggest arsenal;

his wrinkled face smiles his approval,

he crosses himself and gives his blessing—

The world looks on, silent and stony

with a heart numbed by sanctimonious piety.

 

By Shahul Hameed

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