Warning
By: Jehangir Saleh
Written: April 6, 2003

Mass graves
lie ignored in front
of churches, mosques, temples
clustered against the footsteps
hoping to get inside

these are the ultimate victims
discriminated against
by everyone
deaf, dumb, dead
on the floor
some red
others wasting away orange
punished by necessity
stepped, jumped on
burned in sacrifice
and sloth

we are burning ourselves
sucked from our decomposing coffins
we’ll come back
as leaves