a young soldier follows his orders an explosion rips apart a hospital wing dust swirls peacefully in a sunlit shaft people scramble to uncover the mother whose hip is smashed her baby no longer waiting to be born she screams please just kill me now as she is carried over rubble to an emergency room where soon her wish for release is granted two souls slip silently away ascend gracefully over the battered earth into gray winter sky in Bucha torture victims are unearthed hands still tied broken limbs bruised faces shot in the head or cudgeled to death by a rough beast who eats russian boys for lunch sends dark oily tentacles slithering across the blackened soil and burnt crops it twines around picturesque villages where women are being raped with an audience of husbands children & drooling faces in uniform in zaporizhzhia a nuclear plant is shelled again and again its hot angry atoms are barely contained inside orcs are parking their tanks safe a moment frozen on an event horizon where time is forever where every atrocity is imagined and made manifest a cave where morbid projections march endlessly forward and now they are here evil intention that must be fought om mani padme hum a flower from the dark mud satchidananda the ultimate subjective experience of unchanging reality blessed be JGM 091022