Forgive Them Not

Forgive Them Not

Republican former vice-president, Pence,

Signs missiles fired at war-refugee tents;

Biden endorses it, Harris does too;

Forgive them not Lord, they know what they do.

Musk does a blatantly Nazi salute,

Bannon, concluding a rant, follows suit,

Milei, at CPAC, hands Musk a chainsaw;

He raises it, roaring a metaphor:

“Bureaucracy”, yells the trillionaire hog;

Child-cancer funding thus deemed a mere log;

Sycophants cheering; he cuts his way through;

Forgive them not Lord, they know what they do.

Two old dictators make plans for Ukraine,

(Hitler and Stalin all over again?),

War-mongers everywhere gain a green light,

To vent their ambition, envy and spite.

Land occupiers make mockery of law,

Murder civilians; claim a “Just” war,

Cleanse a whole nation, deny human rights;

All with a God-promised land in their sights;

The stateless they robbed won’t be allowed near!

Can anyone not see the irony here?

Donald Trump; Benjamin Netanyahu;

Forgive them not Lord, they know what they do.

Truss’s economy wrecked the UK:

Thirty plus billion she wasted away;

She should be locked up in jail you might say,

Not living the high-life on taxes we pay;

We’re a “Failed state”, so the lettuce declares,

Claiming a government like Tony Blair’s

Is “Socialist”; and “Woke” is to blame;

Omitting the cuts she backed without shame.

Hundreds of thousands austerity killed,

While offshore accounts were callously filled.

Musk aims to maximise suffering now;

Who but a madman would give him such power?

Deluded Conservatives pledge fealty

To oligarchs, living off misery;

I say as an atheist through and through:

Forgive them not Lord; they know what they do.