open your eyes!

Cherry

By Di_Hard

Sat, 28 Oct 2023
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15 comments
 

bombing your moral high ground

(won at such terrible cost)

must always be a tricky manoevre to pull off -

before you know where you are, history is

looking down at your success

and finding a new word to describe shame

in allowing an unimaginable horror 

to happen again

 

 

 

Certificate U
Poem

Comments

Submitted by Turlough on

There is a constant darkness in my mind at the moment.

Occupation, oppression, apartheid, genocide, inhumanity and, as you said, shame are the words I think of. But a shame deeper than any that has gone before as we sit back and allow this happen.

Turlough

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou, Turlough, yes, that is exactly how I feel, too. Not that there has not been anything so bad before, of course there has, there have been atrocities as long as there have been people. But the hypocrisy of this must be a first. And the poor Ukranians, too

 

Submitted by Penny4athought on

Conflict eternal with man's inability to exist in peace, to leave ego out of the equation, talk as equals and allow for differences and feel the precious connection of humanity we share. Refuse hate and live and let live, that should be simple but here on earth, it isn’t. My heart breaks for the pain, loss and irreversible death of innocence everywhere.

Penny4athought

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou so much for reading and commenting Penny, much more articulate than this impotent squalk!

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

dark dark times and heartbreaking for all the poor people stuck in the middle of it.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

yes! Thankyou very much for reading and commenting, and for the cherries :0)

 

Submitted by TJW on

Ain't tricky at all, just call in coordinates and let God sort em out.  Appreciate the read.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

That is one perspective :0) Thankyou very much for giving your time to read :0) I hope you are ok? This must be a hard time for you, with all the News

 

Submitted by TJW on

I'll deal with it, you're a sweetheart for being concerned.

 

Submitted by David Kirtley on

A good poem to describe the truths of war. The moral high ground is soon lost as your warmaking/bombing finds many more victims than the original attack against you. Then who is the war criminal? (And who started it all in the first place?)

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Britain started it all in the first place, according to recent programs on the radio - in modern history, anyway. Thankyou very much, David, for reading and commenting on this poem too!

 

Submitted by celticman on

whatever is imaginable we've already done. Peace is not imaginable. Equality is not imaginable. 

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou very much for reading and commenting, CM. I do hope you are not right

 

Submitted by Kris on

This poem should be attached to the Pilots cockpit check list, before engine start sequence.

After all, with all the high tech hardware flying, drone surveillance, SAT comm`s, GPS targeting... This piece might give a Pilot with a 'Dumb Bomb`' a sense of 'situational awareness' before an attack vector closing in on a densely inhabited compressed urban slum.... if it was on the pre-mission flight check list......

Just say'n*

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Hi Kris :0) Thankyou very much for reading and commenting! The job you describe must be so difficult - I could not do it, would just keep coming back with all the bombs still on my plane - that's if I was clever enough to fly a plane, which I am absolutely not!
I hope you and your loved ones have a wonderful Christmas break, safe and happy