WHERE IS SYRIA?

Where is Syria?

Syria,
tell me what words are there,
to articulate this savage parade
not here,
not in all the Lebanons
whose crystal castles sparkle
like broken glass on the dark horizons
at the jagged edges of the world
from which cultured minds have receded,
and all humanity has been relinquished
to the barbarity of the frenzied flavours
of fools who will speak for this wild parade
without impediment to mythical protagonists

tell me where are the energised arguments
against sophisticated yet false laments;
where testament is torn through
weeping cedar trees
producing the unpredictable accidental quality
that memorialises phantom caresses
that have neither been invented nor encouraged
the hallow that inaugurates
the distinctive features of
destructive energies that are both
exuberant and hard to comprehend
this parade where there is
a savage sensibility
capable of apprehending
contradictory ethical imperatives
that vouch for a mocking stream of
tragic political consequence
displayed vividly in the inextricability
of civil order and political violence

tell me where is the place:
that defies exclusive claim
by casting itself as freedom warrior
in disguise as militaristic humanism
and burns the temple tree
and where human identity
becomes an elusive possession
owned by a few
who in the inevitability of ignorance
refuse to recognise their tragic error
and the world does not mount
a strenuous protest
at this headlong dash for Ephesus
where antagonistic language and
neutral expression of thought converge
and here the value of valulessness
repudiates, even in a single poetic moment..

tell me where?

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