A barbecue in the open,
Sizzling on it are
Meagre, brown, one-side burnt
People. Charred raw flesh, smoke
Billowing out of the prison
Like grills, hissing noises
Muffled, distant, unheard.
In a heal-hell zone.
Licking the legs, the waist.
From toenail to hairtip
Flames. Orange-blue,
Welling up, lunging
Through the broken windows, felled walls
Enveloping the earth-child Sita,
Concealing the hell-bourne invisible
Devil, sucking souls
With its clouded black agents,
Killing lives. Killing the city.
Was the city hurld headlong flaming
Accursed with unquenchable fire
To blaze into ashes the living hopes,
Or in a bid to purify
The putrid, squalid 'city of joy'
An annual arson?
My city is singed, yet seething alive.
Sizzling on it are
Meagre, brown, one-side burnt
People. Charred raw flesh, smoke
Billowing out of the prison
Like grills, hissing noises
Muffled, distant, unheard.
In a heal-hell zone.
Licking the legs, the waist.
From toenail to hairtip
Flames. Orange-blue,
Welling up, lunging
Through the broken windows, felled walls
Enveloping the earth-child Sita,
Concealing the hell-bourne invisible
Devil, sucking souls
With its clouded black agents,
Killing lives. Killing the city.
Was the city hurld headlong flaming
Accursed with unquenchable fire
To blaze into ashes the living hopes,
Or in a bid to purify
The putrid, squalid 'city of joy'
An annual arson?
My city is singed, yet seething alive.
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