Holocaust (Ottava Rima)

Night descends upon the fading horizon
Yet no crickets dare to sing it's song
Every vein within it's body has been undone
No friends or stars to move it along
Only rhythmic tunes of a shooting gun
Forcing some victim to a place they belong
A world where blood buries once beating hearts
A place where timeless love must depart

Barbed wired fences chain helpless souls
Sounds of women as their innocence dried
Children dying from the life that they stole
Young men covering the corpse of their bride
White haunting eyes reveal their lost control
All their prosperous life has now been denied
Listen carefully and you'll hear the Earth cry
As the smell of lost hope carpet the sky

*Done for a Contest