Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Socialist Sonnet No.165

Splitting Differences

 

Ordnance unleashed. A residential block

Reduced to rubble, families rendered

Into body parts, judgment suspended

By the perpetrators of this attack,

An act of unconscionable aggression

Deviously portrayed as self-defence.

In Ukraine it’s without purpose or sense,

Being due to a despot’s callous decision.

Conversely in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon

It’s justified proportionate action,

Targeting a known terrorist faction

That, despite civilians, had to be done.

Surely culpable as the attackers

Are their erstwhile belligerent backers?

 

D. A.

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