SHADOWS

Shadows of hatred

Shadows of fear

Shadows of anger

Shadows of enmity

Shadows of war and crime.

Shadows

Shadows of stupidity

Those who burned my sister,

along with tens of others on a terror explosion in Tel Aviv,

and sent her burned bones to my heart bleeding mom.

Shadows

Shadows of frightening

Those who fell thousands of bombs on Gaza City 

And killed my innocent mom,

along with hundreds of innocent men and women

and sent the pieces of her body,

drown into her blood to me.

Shadows

Shadows of hostility

Those who executed my brother,

along with thousands of young men,

in front of my family in Hanoi

and did not even give his lifeless body to us.

Shadows

Shadows of murderers

Those who killed hundreds of my comrades

At Square of Freedom in Beijing

and took their cold Bodies with them

and portended that nothing happened.

Shadows

Shadows of criminality

Those who murdered my friends,

along with thousands of innocent people

in Hiroshima and Nagasaki,

and called it a fight for peace.

Shadows

Shadows of meaningless hate

Shadows of heartless killers

Those who killed my family and my friends,

along with thousands of loving hearts

in September 11th at World Trade Center, in New York,

and called it the holy war.

Shadows

Shadows of hatred and hostility

Shadows of stupidity

Shadows of senseless politics

Shadows of prejudice

Shadows of death.

© Samuel E. Rajeus, San Diego, CA, USA, September 11th 2001