Bloodied strollers, plundered forever of cherubic babies; languish and mourn; violated and emptied in the empty city square
Kindergartens, schools and universities; all level playing fields, for beastly exercises in vicious, merciless, czarist jihad
Homes and businesses, erstwhile, safe and peaceful sanctuaries, marked for purposeful, criminal destruction
Hospitals and care centres, sitting prey, for inhumane inventions, and their malign, cowardly operators.
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We, in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, watch the grisly, hellish nightmare; trancelike and transfixed
The unfolding chaos and mayhem, perhaps a scary, unwelcome glimpse and harbinger
Awaiting the rest of us; humanity deemed lesser and secondary
Ironic classifications, as vaunted white civilization, disintegrates and rapidly unravels.
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Jungle law, like giant, wild, noxious weeds, in disarrayed landscapes; chokes and overruns the goodly fruits, of global order
As white civilization takes humanity of all hues, alongside creation; to the precipice of biological and chemical warfare
Proof positive that civilization has no colour, creed or culture; for as a man thinketh in his heart so he is...
'The next war may well bury Western civilization forever' sayeth noble Solzhenitsyn; russo-dissident-philosopher-sage.
 �2022 by Irene Fowler.
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