RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS (UKRAINE)
The End of Abstraction
A darling little girl
Laying still in a hospital bed
A moment captured on camera
The little girl lay dead
Her father is not pictured
Her mother is in tears
Her sorrow belongs to all now
The worst of all our fears
War used to be an abstraction
Printed words on a page
Now it’s all up close and personal
We are in the digital age
There have been many wars before
Unprovoked and unjustified
But only rarely have we observed
The faces of those who died
This war belongs to Putin
It might have been Iraq
Now the world has been awakened
Time to halt and take stock
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