Mid-Night Raid

He jumped out of his dreamy sleep
In draws and climbed the steep
Steps for the room where lay
His children to wake them without delay

Sorrowful cries mixed with gun shots
Rent the quiet night as the plots
Of the blood thirsty aggressors held sway
And as they reaped fresh lives away
From robust trunks in the most hideous manner
As if God had left the earth for the hateful planner

Dismembered parts strewn about the room
Jostled him to reality; it was a night of doom
And his life froze within him as he watched the pool
Of blood ripple in the moon light as he stood like a fool

His children were all dead – dead forever
And where is his wife? Will he ever
See her again? And a force beyond him threw
Him into the pathless jungle as the cock crew.