Lest we forget.
The sum
of our conceit,
encased in fear, suckled on greed
delivered by decree.
A dead drop to hell.

For the name
of each man, woman, child,
flesh to a cinder
from one flicker
of the flame.

For the beast
who dines
on the maggots.
A dead drop to hell. 
  
For the land left
with no seed.

For the city
erased.

For the sons
and the daughters
left living,
bound by the sins of the fathers
I beg we shamefully bow.

Let us be humbled.
For we have harnessed,
understood
but a blink
of the truth …

And within our arrogance,
in our failure
to embrace a brother,
we package our gifts
for destruction,
attempting to reinvent
His law with a dead drop to hell.

I beseech thee,
Lest we forget,
the price paid
for our vanity.