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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