Socialist Sonnet No. 205: They & We (2025)

 From the Socialism or Your Money Back blog

They & We

 THEY are belligerent, perfidious.

Whereas, WE are civilised, trustworthy,

Favouring an open society,

Which is why THEY connive to confound us,

Fashioning munitions, missiles and drones

To advance their ambitious aggression,

Engineering international tension;

Hostility’s the marrow in their bones.

It’s only to keep our borders secure

WE maintain peace with military might,

Only slaughter when WE decide it’s right

To do so, certain our motives are pure.

But, who are THEY? Who WE? It’s surely clear

There’ll be neither once borders disappear.

 

D. A.