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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Socialist Sonnet No. 118

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.

1 comment:

  1. 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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