Art, Untitled (Blue) by Pinchas Maryan
Leaders that hate
Leaders like Nero
There’s no debate
They’re absolute zero.
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Compassion lacking
Hatred up front
Cruelty gobsmacking
Insanely blunt.
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War is hell
A hell they love
Their people aren’t well
Poverty they shove.
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Propaganda and lies
Political machines
Mother and babe cries
And all in between.
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Murder or revolution
Will make them retire
A simple conclusion
Like Nero and the Roman Empire.
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Ché, Pott, Castro, Perón
Lenin, Stalin, Pinochet, and Hitler
Men content to be alone
No exceptions, a stickler.
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Death before compromise
Led to bitter ends
Only now can we surmise
What tyranny portends.
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Societies fall, it’s no riddle
As the world turns
Nero and his proverbial fiddle
Playing as his Rome burns…
-AAA 10/05/2024
I truly I’m sorry, but there’s no other word I can think of the describe that effects of war and religious war, as my two great grandparents were murdered in the name of religious war. I can’t think of another word to describe it. I didn’t mean to offend you though.
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Please don’t use the H word; I’m Jewish, so that is a sore point for me. I love the poem and respect the topic… it just… disturbs me. ❤
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I’m sorry 😢
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*big hugs*
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