On a bare mattress he lay
blood splattered half naked
Colonel Gaddafi
of Libya quite dead
the photo barked at me
wrenched me in the gut
an unspectacular end
to a pompous life
made me wonder
at the one chance he had
the one shot at life
to uplift to create
these holders of power
yet niggardly of spirit
the beggars of light
who not finding any
proceed to escape
the approaching darkness
by snuffing out the light
in other people’s lives
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