They were experts

Having practised for years

On cattle

What sustained them?

Beyond the frenzy

The frenzy of the first attack

Through plain physical exhaustion

And the whole mess of it all



Unending destruction required great ambition

Properly disturbed by the curiosity

Of inflicting

Massive slaughter on

Innocent civilians



Perpetrators needn't enjoy the killing

Above all their victims must die

Extermination underway

They killed all day



At night, they feasted on

Looted cattle

Beneath the cries of their victims

After whatever sleep could be had

They went back and killed again



It was a process

The dead were beautiful

Random fallen forms

And the tranquility of their rude exposure

Women and children raped

Then hacked apart with machetes

All dumped into bloodied rivers

Whole families lay butchered and rotting

Ideal genocide

Conveyed through the stronger tribe