Tuesday 28 May 2019

The purge


The Purge

If humankinds’ capacity for war  
Is stifled by terrible weaponry,
Then is the cause of world peace that dread store
That makes Armageddon a guarantee?
World leaders race to the end of the line,
And the winners are those whose store is best;
The highest spec; the cleverest design;
Deemed to be peerless and put to the test.
If history is anything to gauge,
Then war is a certainty, come-what-may;
Presently contained on a smaller stage;
It’s fought in the old conventional way;
The race carries on, and those in the lead
Pile on pressure, as the powerless bleed.


No comments:

Post a Comment

All comments welcome!