Sunday, April 17, 2022

Holiday Massacre

Ramadan, Passover,

And Easter coincide this year,

But THAT doesn't matter to Vladimir Putin,

For he has a war to engineer.

 

He has arranged for a senseless war

To be carried out on Ukrainian soil.

Why be concerned about human compassion

When there is a neighboring land to despoil?

 

Geneva Conventions to Putin mean nothing.

Depraved dictators make their own rules,

Bombing civilian hospitals,

Train stations, homes, and schools.

 

The world has witnessed other examples

Of paranoid, cruel, despots before

Who have no qualms about committing

Monstrous atrocities during a war.

 

To massacre innocent people so

Is nothing short of genocide.

When the war is over how many

Innocent people will have died?

 

Whatever you are celebrating--

If anything--don't refrain

From holding a special place in your heart

For the people suffering in Ukraine.


-by Bob B (4-17-22)

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