Another Syrian Tragedy
Thumbs Up To The Gladiators
Cold-blooded and blue-less, a liquid
of wickedness seeps through geographical
arteries and capillaries. Venomous
it wriggles and writhes blocking
veins and all access to the heart
with layers of toxic sediment —
our airflow blocked, we will gasp for air
and choke to death, such is our predicament.
Pernicious the words of the heartless
As China and Russia veto
a humanitarian corridor essential
to secure food and medication
to a people suffering a shattered
Syria, strangled in the grip
of an inhumane chain of power greed
and national self-preservation
With a suffocating lack of empathy
and love — for children and their families
anguishingly awaiting a winter of disease —
Assad and his cronies lean back
to watch them die with cynical ease.
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