In the darkness with a great bundle of grief the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people march: Where to? What next?
'The People will Live On' - Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
The
President and the President's men
have drawn a Red Line
and someone has crossed it
with chemical death
and soon
they'll be punished
or so we've been told.
Let
someone now ask
someone now ask
the President's men
about their nation's weapons
and those chemical deaths
from depleted uranium
and agent of orange
(once even plutonium)
and nobody
drawing there a red line
on behalf of the babies
and children
and those generations
of victims
affected. Perhaps the press
in the House
and the President's men
don't want us to focus
too closely
on them . . .
It goes without saying, or it should do, that the civilized way forward, if any progress is ever going to be made in these matters, is to arrest those suspected of being responsible for the latest atrocity, and this may include the manufacturers and distributors of such chemical weapons, and to deliver all these people to an appropriate court of justice and there present the evidence. Russia and the USA should now work together to achieve this end. It won't be easy. But it is a beginning.
Pity Obama hasn't got a blog Gwil - you could do worse than send him a copy of this poem. Isn't it strange how politicians can always twist words and situations for their own ends.
ReplyDeleteI understand the British parliament is going to vote on this matter. Let's hope they make the right decision. Funny how the politicians and their warmongers forgot to mention the million refugees in Syria from the Iraq war and the tragedy of the deformed and sick children due to the depleted uranium dust.
ReplyDeleteCommon sense prevails in British Parliament. Brits vote No to war. Our warmongering PM should resign.
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