Facing Nations
It simply isn’t neighborly
to take what’s not yours rightfully.
Don’t force a land to bend the knee
post-massacre by milit’ry.
For no one has a right to be,
by cover of some fantasy
like counterfeit divinity,
a border-bashing tzar-prezi.
It’s such a savage strategy
to strip a state of sov’reignty
with cyber strikes then battery
while falsely citing perfidy.
Hungry, hungry hypocrisy!
conflating fear with vainglory,
disrupting lives with blood money
and shifting boundaries violently.
Behind the suit’s formality
lies rampant insecurity —
a bitter man too jittery
to coexist more peacefully.
The greedy guise of gluttony
pretends at high morality
then takes, unearned, first mentally,
and follows thought with treachery.
To catch it early is the key —
“What’s good for you’s no good for me.”
“The only truth is what I see.” —
These are the words of infamy.
Beware of charming Gray’s esprit,
a picture of prosperity
belying deeds of tyranny,
unmoved by human history.
