David Leslie Urion, 'Rights and Wrongs'

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Rights and Wrongs

Righteous khakis lining one side
repressed ragheads line the other,
both sides playing ping-pong tit for tat
over Ben and Al´s dividing wailing
wall put up to keep fanatics in and out.
Some mums are shouting insults,
lies or bits of rumour turned to truth,
while young men lob their protest rocks,
return back rocket fire as once again the
fork-tongued Yanks side with their favoured
allies, explode all hopes for peace in Middle East.
Sharp-suited envoys ever mindful of backers´
vested interests fire their words like snipers pick
off targets, grin falsely while they mediate, inflame
long-standing hate, aid sales of West-made arms.
Robed holy men fan fires of diatribe,
distort what´s right, blind partisans
to passed down Golden Rule and Aesop´s
fabled words of greed, deaf to hard fact it´s stingy
to not hand back lands unjustly colonised or grabbed.
They´ll never resolve conflicts without a “sorry”
or respect, stop genocide, unblock partitioned
neighbour who´ve every right to take up vacant
UN seat, accept that Palestine´s a rightful State.

By David Leslie Urion