Friendly Invasion
War is never nice and friendly
Make no error about it
Invasion is war, death of a country
Nostra culpa est
There is no amicable invasion
Obviously, this is an egregious violation
Of a country’s sovereignty,
Respect, honor and dignity
Sure, it is our gosh-darn fault
War is hell before and after death
Where no good thing is left
Except the tears, the suffering, the theft
The cries, the breaking of the vault
The rape, the killing, the assassination
The kidnapping, the burning of the constitution
The infringement of God’s given rights, the anti-democracy
The odious crimes against humanity
The worst misery and the nastily abject poverty
Where the country and everybody, everybody
Is indeed worse off. Liberty is cuffed, shackled and muzzled
Love shamelessly and categorically disappeared
Pride was and is dead, freedom has frankly fizzled
Hate verbosely and painfully appeared
As the eyes can see, war is hell. No laughing matter. No fun
No justice, no escape, no democracy. And no place to run
Countless bandits, criminals, and innocents are dead
In such mortiferous galimatias, everybody is wrong
God is helplessly watching and recording. What a sad song!
No future and no hope for today’s generation
We all shamelessly watch, listen and hear
The daily and nightly news here
This is a cuckoo fiasco, an abominable invasion
Where nothing gets better, but worse and worse
We watch, see and witness the violence. We have less, less
And less of everything under the weeping and mournful sun
War is never hilarious, comic, funny and friendly
Hell is not a promenade under the crimson moon
The world is a makeshift barbarous cemetery
And this is not a mendacious mystery
Nostra culpa est
Make no mistake about it
We all will have to pay and ultimately will pay
This is the time to think, to meditate and to pray.
Copyright © October, 2023, Hébert Logerie, all rights reserved.
Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.
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