14th February, 2024
This day
past gangsters gunned down their rivals,
Aiming to
further their enterprises,
Protecting
the profit that arises,
Quite
careless of who their ambition kills.
Almost a
century on and it is still
The way
rival gangs contend for power,
Only now
they’re not mobsters, but dour
Faced
leaders, claiming it’s their national will
Excusing the
vile slaughter that ensues,
Relentless
carnage, merciless campaigns,
With no
refuge wherever terror reigns;
Deaths of
innocents all over the news.
Amidst ruins
and rubble children play,
A grim new
meaning for this Ash Wednesday.
D. A.
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