Troy

Let me proclaim to the world the Wrath

That took a “City” on its raging path

Magnificent walls are crumbling down

Until nothing was left of the glorious town

That once was “Troy” an ancient wonder

By treacherous hands was torn asunder

The “gods” stood watching the slaughter

As its people were denied food and water

When the “barrel bombs” destroyed the land

The Church, the Mosque could not withstand

Crumbled into rubble, the glorious Dome

Destroyed, the “City” I call my “home”

Once prosperous is now a “tomb”
As “Fire and Death” in the sky loom

The “gates of hell” has opened wide
They watch us bleed and look aside

No help in sight; why this “delay”?

Where are all the “friends”, why betray?

A country is destroyed ‘torn to shreds’
Dead bodies, limbs, and severed heads

Litter the streets as destruction spreads
Women and children died; refugees fled

 
Did the “gods” decree this retribution?

For destroying “Troy” there is no absolution

Max O'Reilly