SARAJEVO ROSE / WAR RHYMES

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Why a book? an insolent one may argue.
Especially, why rhymes?
Because,
you fool!,
they came into being with the war itself.
Should he ask again, How come?
the answer is:
Because this war has not happened
but in a rhyming manner.
Ignorance rhymes arrogance,
arrogance godlessness,
godlessness is rhymed with falsehood,
falsehood with haughtiness,
empty of God is rhymed with pride,
(nation) pride with (nation) cult,
egoism rhymes nepotism,
nepotism despotism,
despotism rhymes injustice,
grievance rhymes vengeance,
reprisals rhyme assaults,
aggression rhymes army supply,
arms always rhyme allies,
allies rhyme super-powers,
bogus
big
powers,
small
base
interests,
interests rhyme politics,
politics ideologies,
false ideas rhyme fabrication,
lying is rhymed with false election,
mock elections rhyme deprivation,
violation and blow are rhymed with war.
And then,
in an armed conflict,
literally everything is again rhymed:
a shot with dead or wounded,
a fire with ashes,
ashes with homelessness,
having-no-home with roaming,
wandering with suffering,
women and wine are rhymed with raping,
being raped with giving birth,
babies are rhymed with baby throats,
throats are rhymed with cut-throats,
knives are rhymed with butcheries,
massacres rhyme gore and screams,
spectacles and excitements rhyme,
each thing rhymes a ring
for the performance of the human evil.
Then,
all of a sudden,
a church bell,
made according to the commands of an innocent boy 
who'd only tried to save his life
knowing nothing,
chimed.
Upon that scene of the victory of the instinct to create
over the instinct to annihilate,
Rubiov regained his power of speaking with humans.
But I myself have to stop.
I have to make a pause.
A silent halt.
A minute of silence for the souls of victims
in remembrance of whom
these War Rhymes,
Bosnian,
came into existence.
To be a living witness of that
living
literature.