Weapons of Mass Destruction
(c) 2003 Dorothy Lykes
I.
Young men
heard
drums,
marched away
leaving children
fatherless
who in their youth
heard drums
kissed wives
and
marched
leaving fatherless
children . . .
II.
Desert sand melts
into green glass.
Other greens:
glacial
ice
ocean depths
spring hills
red-headed children's
eyes
and Christmas
trees.
III.
Winking stars,
the eyes of sky,
witness evolution
from primal animal
to man.
Suspecting man's final acts
nature moans a wind
a cello seizes
and plays.
The sky is moved
to
shed a hurricane.