Monday, October 2, 2023

In The Balance

someone said yes there’s war
and in other places peace
but when you zoom out you see
both are needed for harmony

how does the man
holding his bloody son’s corpse
zoom out
when do the orphans
of territorial conflict
get to take a wider view

when places are made possessions
their substance resources
to put up for profit
there is no harmonious whole

there are murderers
plunderers
suffering people
and those sheltered enough
to ignore 
how their shelter 
was made

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