Below is a poem I wrote and posted on Ello in 2022 in a different context, but this version extends to endless genocide throughout human existence.
It happens again and again…
outliers driven by madness
with access to power and weapons.
What do we say
about nations
whose leaders fail to act?
How many times
must we endure
the murders of children
and innocents?
How many times
must we see weeping
faces and hear sobs
of sorrow and despair?
How many times
must we hear vapid words
from excuses to condolences
of hollow thoughts and prayers?
How many times
will some pols voice outrage
while others deflect
and gloss over?
Again and again
we hear it’s not …
it’s ….
Again and again
nothing is done
Again and again
we shake our heads.
Thank you for reposting this poem, Fred. It speaks well to this present era in which we find ourselves and the genocide that is going on now in Gaga. Would you please do me a favour and put a link to it in one of the comment boxes in my poem, or put the whole poem in there if you wish to. It's very true and very good.
Powerful. Visual.