{"id":8638,"date":"2025-11-01T10:37:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=8638"},"modified":"2025-11-07T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:58:04","slug":"saddle-light-first-owed-to-genocide-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/01\/saddle-light-first-owed-to-genocide-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Saddle Light First — Owed to Genocide in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"

This poem is based on a striking new pinnacle of inhumanity, the first dead bodies and bloody ground seen from satellite — a grave convergence of the indifference of technology and humans.<\/p>\n

Saddle Light First — Owed to Genocide in Sudan<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

As a first in humanity, satellite imagery from space documented dead bodies, strewn across the Darfur region of Sudan, on background of a palette of blood, known as \u201ctrue red\u201d in the biz.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t look up
\nThings looking down
\nFrom the cold and dark
\nOf heaven\u2019s above
\nIn deathly obit
\nOf plan, it be
\nIn continents dark
\nAs if God shit
\nWhole countries
\nFrom that eye in the sky
\nPicture dump
\nWith Sudan ease
\nThat bloody stool
\nOf the thrown of God
\nIn humanity looking down
\nOnto pallets of blood lyin\u2019
\nCaptured in a halo of true red
\nHalving herd
\nThat fateful lessen
\nIn dark night skies
\nSaddle light first
\nAnd you can\u2019t tell
\nThe deference of humanity
\nFrom our highest tech<\/p>\n

For the full story: https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/blood-visible-space-sudan-shows-evidence-darfur-genocide\/story?id=126985544<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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