Hell lies empty

The sun hangs low in the sky
Hawks screech plummeting down towards the earth
then pulling up at the last moment, circling around the sky.
The ground is cracked
people's cries fill the air
water,
water,
someone take the pain away.
The air is rancid and hot
a warm breeze brushes the cheeks of those already dead.
The stench of rotting flesh fills everything
like a deadly gas filling a room.
Hell is empty
the demons are here.
Droughts like these
killers like these
at times like these
the holocaust looks like a baby
playing with a gun
nothing dangerous
nothing real.
The child armies march
drinking like vampires.
pillaging like pirates.
sucking the blood out of nations
then moving on
like a plague of mosquitoes.
doing as they are told
they kill.
they are killed.
no one cares.
we sit back
and we laugh
we have water to drink
food to eat
life means little more than nothing
in America
America
where the children play games
weilding guns,
never dreaming
that on the other side of the fence
other children do the same
wishing
always wishing
that they
didn't
have
to