Strikes
Only
Military targets
And is there such a way
A war in one’s land
Won’t
Only affect
Military forces and machines
Yet even
So
Military means soldiers
And support
Meaning people
While an oath to serve is fine
(and it is)
To serve
Defend
And if need be die
The oath or service doesn’t
Detract from
The reality and worth of
Soldiers and support
War might be metal
Regarding two or more it could
Go nuclear
Though
Mainly
War is human
That’s it
C L Couch
What Were the Targets India Says It Destroyed in Pakistan?
by Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/what-were-targets-india-destroyed-its-strikes-pakistan-2025-05-07/
Photo by imad Clicks on Unsplash
Srinagar, Kashmir On Dal Lake
(x = space)
x
x
Many Deaths in India All at Once
x
The electric signals
For the trains
Went wrong
Crash
Crash
Crash
Who knows how many times
And many died
And this means hundreds
Hundreds of people died
Because of this
And we who were not there
Will wonder briefly
About trains
Except we’ll keep them
And make more
Like bullets
That carry us
From guns
Which is fine
Trains are better for us
x
Pages and pages
Filled
All the names of the dead
How many names
Did each one carry
I have three
And you
And I’m still here
We are here
I’m dancing ‘round
The tragedy
Because I can’t make the math
Turn into people
x
I saw one photograph
Tracks and smoke
The right side went dark
There were the bodies
I suppose
Parts of trains
Yes
But unmechanical
Blood and organs
Separated flesh
With all the spirits gone
Released by death
In horror
Nothing like timorous gentility
In age or temerity
Of faith
x
What time for prayer
Seconds to turn
And turn
And turn
Challenge to our consciousness
Our bodies thrown
Moments of discomfort
Injury
Where are our own
Then silence
Even while
The fire of earth
Rage on
x
And we shall rage
And wonder
About planners
Admin. Folk
Even inventors
And
Yes
We have logistics
Everything to deal with
After
Which is us
And now
x
We’ll keep ourselves
We’ll try to keep the earth
And these
Close by
Until way over here
By tomorrow
Maybe tomorrow
x
One life
Let’s save one life
Over this
Then do that
Hundreds of times
Everyone
Everywhere
x
C L Couch
x
x
Despair and Anguish Stalk Hospitals as India Reels from Devastating Train Crash
Story by Ivan Watson • 2h ago
(CNN)
x
‘I Am Haunted by It’: Survivors of Deadly Train Crash in India Recount Trauma
by Krutika Pathis and Rish Lekhi
5 June 2023, 6:29 a.m.
(Time)
x
Photo by Ashwini Chaudhary(Monty) on Unsplash
x
Two Hundred Fifty Dead
two hundred fifty dead in Chennai
a rounded number while the
counting of the dead goes on
rains and flood that’s what did
it now hopefully not so much
because of human design in
placing buildings and the populace
Chennai so you know is a city
of the world not that that should
matter for the death of one
native inhabitant anywhere is
a loss that makes a difference I
know you know this
but international technology
companies have invested in
Chennai with their presence their
companies are closed there now
worst killing flood in a century it’s
said and the rain keeps falling there
the part of all that’s drowned and
so given up which might be of natural
design has me wonder about a
fallen world did everything fall
that was created first would even
storms and floods that for now
cut off life would they run true and
right if renewed into the first and
given state makes me wonder if
free will then was worth the cost
sometimes I wonder this at other
times I don’t question for I know
that a fallen world is not worth the
cost of discretion and of choice
clcouch123 
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