Moonpaper,
crumpled
parchment
leaves lie torn, alone
in the lotusdark
shattered
peace so much
debris
from a bomb blast and
no one to
clean up.
The Islamic Museum of Art in Cairo has been majorly damaged in a bomb blast targeting the Police HQ. Collateral damage, I guess.
Your description of the damage along with the fact nobody is left from the original target is moving. I don't know what is more saddening, the destruction or its aftermath.
ReplyDeleteThe Museum will be restored someday no doubt, but what's lost is lost. No one wants to clean up the political fall out. Of course human lives come first, but its heartbreaking to see art and heritage just destroyed so randomly. Thanks for reading, Brendan.
DeleteIt is like every time something like this happens, a part of history vanishes, as if it never even existed. The burning of the library at Alexandria, the burning of books during the Nazi reign in Germany, the looting of artifacts from the pyramids, the blowing up of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan and the looting from the Aztec and Mayan ruins in Southern America.
DeleteWhat are we if not the result of our actions that long back?
True. We are our pasts.
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