Using dead kids as PR

Fiery words of condemnation flow as the sabres start their clamour,

the press-titutes weave webs of words and cast a blinding glamour,

as the hawks now find the children of the Syrian regime

a perfect tool to sell the world on their hegemonic scheme,

standing at the pulpit shedding lies and crocodile tears,

manipulating minds and stoking the embers of our fears,  

speaking of the anguish felt, of their pain as they portray

the footage of a father with his baby’s corpse held on display,

stimulating sympathies in an orchestrated plan

to gain the public’s backing for the war machines demands

 

But beware the forced omission, a deliberate forgetting of the facts,

an overlooking of the tally built of their own child killing acts,

they napalmed kids in Vietnam, burnt the skin right off their bones,

blown kiddies into pieces with their all seeing killer drones,

through radioactive weapons they’ve caused deformities obscene,

uranium and phosphorus mutating unborn growth and genes,

condemning countless children through the lessons that they teach,

sanctions keeping heating oil and medicines out of reach.

 

Afghanistan and Vietnam, Libya and Guatemala,

El Salvador, the Philippines, Iraq and Nicaragua,

the list of places bruised and bloodied by the Eagles deadly touch

could fill so many pages, and yet more will feel the clutch,

so when these corporate w****s get up and speak their righteous tones,

listen behind the shock they feign for the countless childrens bones

that fill the closets hidden in these corrupted halls of power,

and watch for ones who plant the seeds, and then condemn the flower

Reviews

[Glen Yumang Manese]

Insightful tone you set into words here with this write...the usage of the title got me to read this one...and then as I read your words about atrocities of a nation and the conflicting images in the lines...give much to think about and reflect in this verse...seems you've put some time into your work to showcase this in the passage...