Scrolls

If you unwrap these

charred skins

depicting a scene of war

you would read of

a world: a universe

of trapped and 

channeled woe, a tale of

persecution

for the wrongs of others

at last

with nowhere left

to go,

And you might think

them ancient,

the scarred remains of

history's flow.

But they breathed life

the same as ours

only sadder

but a little while 

ago.