Thor, the Norse God of Thunder, had a hammer named Mjölnir. Mjölnir was considered a fierce weapon that could level mountains and summon lightning with every blow. In this poetry blog, every Thursday, (Thor’s Day), Mjölnir will forge only song - sing of the mysteries and beauties of the world.

Thursday, May 27, 2021

SURVEILLING THE SILENCE

 

I sweep            the war-torn

landscape

like a surveillance       camera

scanning

 

the waste and ruin

for signs

 

of survivors.

I see none.

 

Only a terrain

riddled with

the visible scars

of so many

recent skirmishes.

 

And then it hits

me.      A concussion

 

implodes within.

There is more than

the obvious devastation.

 

Silence, I see, is its own

incendiary device. It can trigger

 

a pain and cut deeper

than the shrapnel

from any detonating land mind.

 

The silence after explosions

sometimes       is far more

damaging than

 

the explosions

themselves.

No comments:

Post a Comment