Strangled dusk- fallen time earth saw the burning sky through the eyes of the fallen now a black gleaming veil of flies has closed their wounds Nights with lungs full of smoke the hard breath of the fleeing when gunshots let the silence shatter like a wet blanket, fear has enclosed their lives the stifled screams of the wounded hurt like needles left behind to die they watch their hopes disappear Fires quietly chew the dark in silence ashes join the wind blowing through broken doorways