Antiquity and humanity war in relics' grip
From the Horn of Africa to China's Western tip
Incendiary pageantry wakes with dawn's early light
Autocratic jabberwocky weds militant hype
Amidst Pearl Square assassinations and Solmalian piracy
The world makes its bed in greed and hypocrisy
Sunni and Shia locked in cadaverous conflagrations
Blood soaked streets mark Bahraini protestation
In Sanaa, Yemenites duck tear gas and stones
Even bellwether states have forgotten their own
But in America allegiance - one Nation indivisible
Under God we stand united, lest things become political
Shrouded in public odium our hands too readily from our hearts remove
To burn the flag in effigy and compatriots reprove
Jackals and lambs at liberty's table guardedly await
As dominos collide – and knock on justice's gate
By Rachel A. Elovitz, March 3, 2011
From the Horn of Africa to China's Western tip
Incendiary pageantry wakes with dawn's early light
Autocratic jabberwocky weds militant hype
Amidst Pearl Square assassinations and Solmalian piracy
The world makes its bed in greed and hypocrisy
Sunni and Shia locked in cadaverous conflagrations
Blood soaked streets mark Bahraini protestation
In Sanaa, Yemenites duck tear gas and stones
Even bellwether states have forgotten their own
But in America allegiance - one Nation indivisible
Under God we stand united, lest things become political
Shrouded in public odium our hands too readily from our hearts remove
To burn the flag in effigy and compatriots reprove
Jackals and lambs at liberty's table guardedly await
As dominos collide – and knock on justice's gate
By Rachel A. Elovitz, March 3, 2011
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