Saturday Thoughts

We teeter on the edge again:

News is stark from the Ukraine;

Prices rise, there’s talk of S.W.I.F.T.*

Who should act and give short shrift?

 

Each generation, I’ve heard said

Their Freedom cannot take as read

This is a gift – it must be earned

Meanwhile, a host of boats are burned!

 

Explosive sounds and mass migration

Not Syria, but another nation,

Which is closer and to hand;

First casualty: dissent is banned…

 

Though tensions mount up and increase

Talks and discussions are of Peace;

Resistance takes on a new form

World markets wake to tougher dawn …

 

Are we held to ransom by lone hand,

Spilling worms out of the can?

With oil and gas held in one fist

Diplomacy – what have you missed?

(c) Poet in the woods 2022

* Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication