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
