Saturday, March 12, 2022

The End of Abstraction

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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