When Genocidal savagery meets the useless outrageous ignorance of closed eyes

by LEON STOLGARD

Tuesday 29th July 2025 5:01 pm

Again and again

another day comes to torment our hearts

with the same gruesome soul wearying news

the merciless demons lustings

for the blood of the helpless

that continues to stain the headlines

the hope-lost starving innocents

with what little strength they have

wandering weakly towards the likeliness

of their unforgiveable unforgettable unsurpassable deaths

is it possible I wonder

that even the Sun and Moon

in being forced to watch these atrocities

haven't tried to cry their fixed smiles away?

could it be that God's assumed promise to the meek has dissipated

or is it possible again I wonder

that he has gone for an eternal sleep in no-mans land?

why do we not see his anger being vented on the guiIty

or did it ever exist at all?

and why do the doors to so many billions of hearts stay closed?

the truth is that even in a hellhole like Gaza

there will always be so much elation

but it will ALL belong to deaths murdering monsters!

WHY! WHY! WHY!

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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Fri 1st Aug 2025 22:25

and you👍

LEON STOLGARD

Fri 1st Aug 2025 21:12

Maybe fairly hard going at times Uilleam, for the likes of us, but we are still here, to tell the tale as they say.

Have a good lights out matey 😴

L.S.

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Fri 1st Aug 2025 19:35

Wilful Ignorance is the enemy, Leon.

The value of your words lies not in the use of fancy metaphors, or arty-farty sounding lines, but in the fact that the words needed saying, and that you said them whilst others chose to stay wilfully ignorant and stay cowardly silent. Incitement to pity is now an indictable offence.

I'm with you 100% about going without food through my own fault, been there, seen it, done it. It's heartbreaking to see those mothers unable to feed their infants. But there will be a reckoning!
Fight the good fight!

LEON STOLGARD

Fri 1st Aug 2025 19:10

With the greatest of respect guys, my preference has to be about our sharing of the disgust and anger, regarding the slaughter in Gaza,

I n my opinion, that takes priority over how good, or not, this poem actually is. I think you'll know what I mean.

Nevertheless, I am very grateful, for the comments made by Uilleam and Stephen, and, the likes by Red-Uilleam-Stephen-Manish ( good to see you again ) and Yanma.

On a personal note, I, like thousands, if not millions of other people, have experienced days of going without food, due to one reason or another, the most common, as it was in my case, was the spending of money on booze, not food.

But this, and other problems, I had to endure, pale into absolute insignificance, compared with the poor suffering people in Gaza.

When sitting down to a meal, I consider myself very lucky indeed, not just for the food, but not being made in having to put my life on the line trying to get it.

not forgetting about the swallowing of sorrow, with every mouthful.

Stephen Gospage

Thu 31st Jul 2025 08:17

An extraordinary verse about the Sun and Moon, Leon. Another top rank poem. It needed to be said.

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Tue 29th Jul 2025 19:30

As a child, I was taught about "The Massacre of the Innocents" in the bible (Gospel of Matthew) imagining it to be a mythical story or parable, concerning a faraway place, with a kernel of truth.
I now see a real slaughter being carried out with the consent of, and enabled by my own government.

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When Genocidal savagery meets the useless outrageous ignorance of closed eyes

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