Political Amnesia
Those whose
collective past is badly scarred
By such brutal
confinement and killing,
Might be
expected to be unwilling
To allow
their hearts to become so hard
As to
emulate their persecutors
Through perpetrating
a modern Childermass,
When
self-defence is not even a crass
Excuse. It's always the innocent in wars
Whose lives
too often end being cheaply spent.
When even
the hospitals are burning,
It appears
there may be no learning,
No lessens
drawn down from any recent
History. All seems power and vanity;
Yet there is
choice, to choose humanity.
D. A.
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