Thursday, March 17, 2022

Barbarians at the Gates

RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS (UKRAINE)

 

Barbarians at the Gates

 

Once they were reluctant warriors

Now they are willingly debased

Soldiers of the dark

Barbarians at the gates  

 

Gone is the empathy that once

Held their arms in check

Gone is the humanity that once

Spared the elderly and infirm

Gone is the sense of brotherhood

The commonalities of culture

The pride of proximity

Of friends and families shared

 

What remains is something less

Than human and humane

What remains is barbarity

Cruelty and horror

 

Return to your country

Lay down your arms

And face the great dictator

Or stay in Ukraine

To fight for humanity

To become something human

To embrace the humane

Join the army of Ukraine

 

 

(NOTE: Reports of atrocities increase.)


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