Blue-eyed Mullah

some still wonder why
the blue-eyed prophet
passed with the new millennium


the twins were merely pawns
of the underworld
trudging toward a destiny


irrevocably
unspeakably
invoked


from the ancient dust
of father's
swollen tongue


weeping


the blue-eyed mullah
gathers his minions
for the quickening


as we rush to folly
marching with
a mad jester


one hand
touching the sun
as the other


drips red
upon corpses in the sand
mummified


by the evil
of our indifference
and their own


willingness to burn
for a blind
puppeteer