Men and boys
marched with innocent
dignity,
to be butchered
in cold blood.
Lives stolen,
futures destroyed.
Blood splattered
in dark valleys,
corpses heaped in soil.
Wives left bereft
sunk in desolation.
They slaughtered
the innocent with
callous hearts.
and frozen souls ,
wrote history in carnage.
Oppression, division,
gave unholy power
to those who ordered
violent decimation.
They killed them
for finding God
on a different path.