Tuesday, October 08, 2024

Socialist Sonnet No. 167

Cycle of Belligerence

 

Sucker punch shattering crystal-brittle

Relations: gathering in a dance field

Where harvesters of the young reap their yield.

So do belligerent nations whittle

Each other away, with atrocity

For atrocity, all claiming that theirs’

Is an appropriate response, declare

Themselves graced by God’s partiality.

To what do the unnumbered dead amount?

Meanwhile earthly powers lament, then resort

To lending unconditional support

And munitions. Who’ll be called to account?

Victims become perpetrators and then

Victims before perpetrators again…

 

D. A.

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