Cycle of Belligerence
Sucker punch shattering crystal-brittle
Relations: gathering in a dance field
Where harvesters of the young reap their yield.
So do belligerent nations whittle
Each other away, with atrocity
For atrocity, all claiming that theirs’
Is an appropriate response, declare
Themselves graced by God’s partiality.
To what do the unnumbered dead amount?
Meanwhile earthly powers lament, then resort
To lending unconditional support
And munitions. Who’ll be called to account?
Victims become perpetrators and then
Victims before perpetrators again…
D. A.