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Violence And Chaos
“Violence And Chaos”
It’s 12:07 I’m on the run,
ducking and dodging this is no fun!
War breaks out, trouble in the streets.
So many people, hard to feed.
Water is scarce, prices so high.
My eye’s fog up, I’m blind in one eye!
Knowing the meaning or reason why!
So many people, have already died.
William J. Roney III
Copyright © 2022
Death Happening
A large number of wounded, as portrayed here, are in flight. Civilians trying to fler terrorized, why? Worry about radiation, sustenance, reaching a border, leaving a home.
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These past two years we counted Covid-19 dead and dying, saw families torn by deaths of young people parents grandparents friends teachers those beloved's who we hoped to spend our lives with. We are still recovering.
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Imagine yourself hearing conspiracy theories about germ warfare, waking up to explosions that kill horribly. That is what they're going through inside the borders of Ukraine.
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Some insiders are questioning Putin's health, his sanity. He is the one calling the shots, dropping the bombs, killing innocent people, targeting neighborhoods, targeting homes and apartment buildings. Imagine huddling in a bunker waiting for bombs to stop. This violates international law. Of all the wars, including Vietnam and all the war since, this one has the most coverage, it is reaching us through visuals reaching the most people, because of the visuals coming out of that country.
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We have seen fires and floods we have seen homes destroyed, we have watched people walking out of Oregon, California, the floods in Texas, the East Coast, then Europe and Asia. Where homes once were, where lives had been for generations. It was another war scene for them, for what they lost.
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The difference being that in USA and elsewhere there was quick help, but Ukraineans are trapped and no one is coming fast enough. Imagine no help coming, no place to go, no way to get out. That's hell and Putin is responsible for that manufactured hell.
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Good poem. Topical and emotional. Thank you for writing it down.
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Lady A
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Yes, it's fair to imagine politics melts away in survival mode
I doubt there is a book that exists which has told the whole truth about any given war. I'm sure at least a few have truly tried, but I think it's unlikely any have succeeded. To really understand all of why these things happen, we'd have to unwind a ball of string that goes back to the generations ago, if not to the beginning of civlization itself. At our best, we're gathering the biggest pieces we can to examine, hopefully before they're shattered by the bombs of the next day or conflict. And doing so if you're on the ground? The enemy is who ever is doing the shooting you're running from at that moment.