By Any Means
Atrocity can
be excusable,
Once it’s
justified by necessity
It seems.
The bombardment of a city,
Or a
hospital being hospitable
To wounded,
injured and maimed refugees.
Shooting the
young at a pop festival,
Cutting
power and water to instil
Panic and
despair, unleashing disease.
The blame
lies squarely with the others side,
Always. All-out
assault is an advance,
Not an
attack, an act of resistance,
To defend
property and national pride.
And there
are benefits to martial harms,
Great
profits from manufacturing arms.
D. A.
Sometimes poetry is the best way of articulating powerful sentiments when prose is struggling to find words to comprehend the horrors taking place. Every line in this Sonnet perfectly encapsulates the reality of the awful things presently taking place. One wants to shout out, A plague on both your house! The blame, in the end, lies in global capitalism. Unfortunately, not enough people are aware of that as of yet. There's only one solution to the current, and future conflagrations, and that's the replacement of capitalism by socialism.
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