Tanya Anisimova

AFTERMATH OF WAR

An amphitheater has been cleared out

Fans have switched off their monitors while

Thousands of dead bodies are burning in the mobile crematories

Elated viewers, are you hungry for more?

Reality may be perceived as an “okay” one until we realize:

        We are committing a treason, against ourselves

My grandfather died during the first Chechen war in the mountains of Ichkeria. He was 90. An

Ample time for reflection, then.. on his deathbed, and earlier, during WWII, when he was exiled to the Kazakh steppes..

Time does its job, so do the investigative officers

Horror in the child’s eyes:

 

One moment she was with her mother, a

Fraction of a second later, she is alone in the world

 

War, any war, leaves us with a never-ending

Aftermath…

Raw, shameful, nauseating residue.