Splitting Differences
Ordnance unleashed. A residential block
Reduced to rubble, families rendered
Into body parts, judgment suspended
By the perpetrators of this attack,
An act of unconscionable aggression
Deviously portrayed as self-defence.
In Ukraine it’s without purpose or sense,
Being due to a despot’s callous decision.
Conversely in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon
It’s justified proportionate action,
Targeting a known terrorist faction
That, despite civilians, had to be done.
Surely culpable as the attackers
Are their erstwhile belligerent backers?
D. A.