Something like human

I was something like human
in the blue morning
when you came
to make it grey
burning grass to ash
melting flesh from fragile
skeletons

Mutating bird's chirps to
missile screams
changing green to black
sunlight to radioactive glow
in the twilight

A flattened skyline
a charred reminder
an uninvited visitor
from a distance
unfathomable

Just a flash
a memory scarred
into the side of my face
something like human
hamburger meat pounded soft
and cured with flavors
of war

Gunpowder season and
uranium salt sprinkled over
your next great feast

You, beast of conflict
apothecary of disease,
entered my home
that once blue morning turned
black and bloody
with raping malice on your face
and fingertips and fearless
hate on your tongue

Saliva spewing lips
spraying acid
in my mother's eyes
molesting her DNA
and leaving like hot fire
in the dead wind a cloud
of gas

We boiled
in the molten stew
until our eyes ran red
then grey then black

Crippled spines
shattered limbs
bubbling brains

Then the darkness subsided
and a new light grew
and my mind was free
and my hungry eyes opened wide
and my something like human
was no longer inside.