~Heartless~

HEARTLESS
Aisyah Manan (2013)

Listen! Not hear

The sound that grabs the ear

Of children who run from deathly rain

Of a nasty human’s game

They scuffle throughout fear

With a sound that are so clear

But still, a line of imbeciles

Pour the deathly rain

Both eyes met

The eyes of the innocent sparkled

But imbecile’s eyes darken the heart

Have a little mercy!

Dark moon shall no longer rise

Or else we will become crushed

By our sturdy fist

That changed by pride

Look into the tears

Shed by thousand prayers

Grant them oh flare gaze

How could you be so heartless?

                                                                                                                

Explanation:-

I wrote this poem in response to Shihab Nye’s “All Things Not Considered”. After my thorough reading of that poem, the word that pops out of my mind is heartless. Moreover, I also recall a song entitle “Heartless” and make use of a line in that song for my poem which is “How could you be so heartless?”. The overall poem is about the inhumanity of soldiers whom have no mercy when killing innocent people. If this kind of situation keeps on going, we could lose our humanity towards one another and we might not be civilize anymore.