Hands That Make the Arms
Benighted hands employed through industry
To manufacture such grim munitions
That make possible bellicose missions,
Whereby martialled workers deliberately
Seek to slaughter martialled workers they see
As holding enemy positions.
Such tragic results of these attritions
Doing naught to increase their liberty.
Most surely those hands are able to grasp
That the ever mounting loses of war
Mean mounting profits continue to soar
For those few with industry in their clasp.
Rather than following, fulfilling orders,
Hands can chose to reach out across borders.
D. A.