Grieve-
for those who lost
their children, brethren, parents.
Mourn-
those who lost their blood,
their eyes, their lives.
Give voice-
to the silenced dissenters,
those who lost their voice,
their right to speak, their freedom.
Condemn-
those who maim, wound
with impunity
and those who grant them
that draconian right.
Expose-
those peddlers of lies,
those heartless self-centred egomaniacs,
in whose patriotic fervour
people have ceased to matter.
Reason-
with oneself,
take a stand,
one backed by rational thought
and a desire for suffering to end.
for those who lost
their children, brethren, parents.
Mourn-
those who lost their blood,
their eyes, their lives.
Give voice-
to the silenced dissenters,
those who lost their voice,
their right to speak, their freedom.
Condemn-
those who maim, wound
with impunity
and those who grant them
that draconian right.
Expose-
those peddlers of lies,
those heartless self-centred egomaniacs,
in whose patriotic fervour
people have ceased to matter.
Reason-
with oneself,
take a stand,
one backed by rational thought
and a desire for suffering to end.