One Man

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS (UKRAINE)

One Man

 

In the grand scope of history

Rarely does one individual

Embody all that is wrong with

The whole of humanity

 

With cold steely eyes he watches

the killing of pregnant mothers

innocent children and babies

still in their mother’s arms

 

Without any provocation

His only motive self-aggrandizement

He destroys a nation for failing

To bow down before his grandeur

 

He is the least and worst of humanity

He is the barren wasteland of souls

He is the heartless beast of beings

He is the endless dark of night

 

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

 

Hunter and Prey

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS (UKRAINE)

Hunter and Prey (Human Traffickers)

 

The lowest of the low

The worst of the debased

A maze of endless sorrow

Scum of the human race

 

They prey on girls and women

The refugees of war

Desperate and destitute

Forsaken and forlorn

 

They wear a mask of empathy

They offer a helping hand

They’ll take you somewhere safe

They keep hidden their evil plan

 

They look the same as anyone

You know them by their smell

They leave a stench behind them

On a journey straight to hell

 

(Report: Traffickers exploit refugees.)

 

Mercenary Killers in Ukraine

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS (UKRAINE)

Mercenary Killers

 

What do you do when

Your own soldiers hesitate

To kill and terrorize their brethren

From just across the border?

 

You hire mercenary killers

Killers without conscience

Killers who have lost their humanity

Killers who count their kills

And cash their paychecks

 

The lowest form of human

(if you can even call them that)

They see strength in war crimes

They see strength in brutality

They do not hesitate to burn homes

With women and children in them

They will torture on demand

They will raze the earth and laugh

At mass destruction

 

They serve at Putin’s pleasure

They admire his brutal power

They desire his stolen treasure

They are of the same mold

Water of the same well

They belong together

They will meet again in hell

 

Impunity

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS (UKRAINE)

Impunity

 

The Great Dictator has asserted

his absolute and unquestionable right

to brutalize, terrorize and kill

the brave people of Ukraine

with the impunity of a god

 

He is not a god

He is just a man

A deeply flawed and brutal man

He owns no special privilege

He possesses no special rights

He is what he has earned

Over decades of brutality

He was a killer before Ukraine

He is a killer now

He was a monster before

He is a monster now

 

What the dictator knows

Or thinks he knows

Is that the cameras will one day vanish

The tears of a weary world will dry

The thirst for Russian oil will grow

And our passions will unfold

 

The Great Dictator believes that

Time will absolve his crimes

It will fall to all of us

Citizens of the world

To make sure

It does not