Sherman's March

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS (UKRAINE)

Sherman’s March

 

Sherman’s march of destruction

through the heart of the Old South

still lives in land of Dixie

a hundred and fifty years later

A legacy of infamy though his cause

was as righteous as a river runs

 

Sherman destroyed the South

to end a war of hellfire and to rip

the roots of slavery from the earth

 

Putin’s destruction of Ukraine

is not to liberate but to enslave

It wears no cloth of righteousness

It bears the mark of Cain

One brother murdering another

not for want of virtue

but for want of power

 

Putin will be remembered

as long as mothers love their babes

as long as humans cherish freedom

as far as anybody knows

as long as sunflowers still grow