Wednesday, November 01, 2023

Socialist Sonnet No. 120

Justification

 

A world of bellicose tribulations

Spawns advocates prepared to justify

Why it’s right and proper others must die

In order to preserve the nation.

Barbarians just beyond the borders

Are prepared to kill our sons and daughters.

And so, a self-defensive slaughter

Of their children is perfectly in order.

It’s with heavy hearts and heavy bombing

That the moral high ground is defended

And violence might finally be ended

Once the violent can be sure what’s coming.

Any who protest or call for a halt

Are in the enemy’s camp, by default.

 

D. A.

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