Portion of Verse

This is from the small book Srebrenica is a falling star published in July 2000, five years after the genocide.

I'm continually amazed at the power a few words have.  Here's 65 of them...

I have yet to call for help […]
Hieronymus Bosch and Brueghel,
I have yet to ask them
to paint:
the regions turned to Hell,
the torment of the innocent,
iconostasis of horror,
and, then, to thread up a caravan of satanic faces,
the horde of the damned,
lost souls,
on their blood-soaked
course
in the twentieth century
to Gehenna,
as they pass through
Bosnia.

—Melika Salihbeg Bosnawi



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