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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