Silent Beneath Science

Here lie bones burned and boiled
Drowned and desiccated
Bones that once lay buried
Long forgotten, summoned back into the light

Those of martyred innocents
Those of double-dyed murderers
Lying side by side
Silent beneath science

Tumbling teeth and vertebrae
Articulating and arrayed
Brown skulls, grey and black
The dark eyeless shadows of orbital sockets gaze

Injury from weapon penetration
Lost bones in skulls confusing confusion

Silent beneath science