Socialist Sonnet No. 195: Victims (2025)

From the Socialism or Your Money Back blog  

 

Victims

Refugees in their own homes shot and shelled.

Young men and women in battle fatigues,

Their own lives imperilled by the intrigues

And ambitions of those who feel impelled,

By destiny or profit, to fabricate

Self-serving, spurious justification,

Such gold braided vain glorification

Of leaders in a belligerent state.

War’s irony is its inanity,

The crass and brutal way it insists

In transforming mere men into rapists,

To deny women their humanity.

The world’s changed, or so politicians claim,

But for victims it is always the same.

D. A.