RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS
Buried in Mud (Libya)
To those who say
government doesn’t matter
Look to Libya
Where a monster storm combined
with government dysfunction
to bury ten thousand people
in a matter of hours
Years of civil war
An absence of civil society
A crumbling infrastructure
Chaos and disorder
The Libyan strongman is gone
Leaving a void in his wake
This is his lasting legacy
This is Libya’s cruel fate
Death and destruction
A dysfunctional state
We cry for the Libyan people
We mourn for their dead
We will lend our aid
To see their children are fed
What more we can do
We do not know
For a failed nation whose
Needs only grow
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