Mid-east Crisis

Blog 328:

Anywhere … everywhere … despots hold supremacy
And claim dominance by hook or crook
In like mind, their tyrant allies
Build-up, pass on to them munitions and weapons
Together they aim to silence rebelling souls
With their violent schemes and war games
It didn’t matter who gets hurt or annihilated

Young and old, innocents or renegades

Those who claim themselves far superior
Hide in cloaks of ‘justice for the republic’
Yet they shell homes and paths
They air raid villages of civilians
And expose them to muscle-tightening gas
Until all are robbed of voice and life

Those few that somehow survive
Brave more split-second shelling
Lamely … they rise from the smoke and fire
To gather up their dead and mourn them
Still, others scarred or partly maimed
Bear the brunt of consoling the bereaved

For whose freedom is the fight being fought?
Which justice … what cause … whose rights kept safe?
Bombs keep exploding
Citizens blindly march out of war-stricken lands
Dignity denied
Innocence stolen
Childhood lost
Lives put on hold

Wars … crusades … time and again
Hide in guise of freedom and security

Wars … crusades … time and again
Harvest only havoc and infinitely multiply suffering

There are no winners in violence-infested places!
All lose on shameful acts of indignation and brutal force!