Peace Under Siege

Today I'm learning the name of war refugee camps, in Congo, Rwanda, Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Yemen, you name it, and the children who play hide and seek in charred automobiles, shivering in cold and starvation behind the barb wires, thanking the good Samaritans clothed in peace. Today I'm signing Lennon's Imagine, imagining those children swapping their places even for a day, with your rich suburb kids whose fathers profit from arms, to see them recruited as child soldiers, putting their war game skills to good use. Today I'm laying siege to warmongers and their kins who love peace and practice war, the true artisans of hypocrisy.