Tuesday 5 February 2019

Victims of barbarity



Victims of barbarity (In memory of Stephen Smith)

 

I read a horror story

A man all skin and bone

Due to chemotherapy

Weighing a mere six stone

The-powers-that-be declaring

FIT FOR WORK in spite of pain

Stephen Smith deemed able

Their sanctions

Would remain

 

Looking at his photograph

His face and body bore

A physical resemblance

To prisoners of war

Victims of barbarity

From hell to earth returned

Took their place in history

But was a lesson learned?

 

As for the barbarians

Those beasts of world war two

Are judged by us most harshly

And very rightly too

Yet thinking of the-powers-that-be

I cannot help but see

In light of Stephen’s picture

A similarity   

 

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