
IV
The first innocent man falls
by the killer’s hands and
a curse commences in the pupil
of the leaden day as the creek coils at
the sight of the unnatural deed.
Mother Earth groans in pain
Mother Earth revolts
anger swells in her four corners
anger in the reddish East
and the crystal North
anger in the purple West
and the yellow South.
Anger and pain at the sight
of the innocently shed blood
dark shroud of silence
shadows the morning wavelet
and the memory of peace vanishes:
“Seven levels of revenge will become
the next dogma ad infinitum”
Mother Earth decrees.