Gaza
A poem by Michael Hawkes
The more they bomb
the more the opposition builds.
The more they kill
the less the opposition yields.
The more the pressure of the bombs
the less the patriot succumbs.
The more they feel of Jewish might
the more they know their cause is right.
The more destruction grows
the more the west recoils in fright.
The more the bombed return the blows
the less ignorant applaud their fight.
Whatever is the final score
of buried homes and body bags
of children smashed and I.D. tags
we’ll find that Wall Street ran the war
that stocks in Zion will increase
that lust for power will never cease
that things will go on as before
until one sees that less is more.
26/2/24 – Hawkes
Feature image: destruction in Gaza, January 2024 by Yairfridman2003, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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[/col][col size=”10″]Michael Hawkes is a survivor of all the world’s wars. He learned (and loved to rhyme) by torturing the hymns he had to sing at school. A retired West Coast fisherman living in Montreal since 2013, he is an unschooled Grandpa Moses writing an average of five poems every week.
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As usual, Michael Hawkes is right on re humanity’s plight. And also as to who are the real losers and winners in these endless conflicts.
Made me cry