A senescent president spends
Beyond measure the wealth
Of his nation, and supports a
Comedian’s nation pitted against
A Slavic warlord who dreams
Of the war his comrades applaud.
Seeing his foes embroiled,
The leader of Sinitic millions
Likes his chance and seeks to meld
Taiwan into a Chinese whole.
Japanese and South East Asians
Younger than those locked in
Western Ukraine arm themselves
Thinking that they are
More formidable than
The Chinese believe. In the world
We try, those of us standing aside,
To hide our faces and hope these
Onslaughts pass us by; yet fire
Burns brightly where we stand.
Somewhere beyond our ken
A malevolence watches these
Stirrings, dipping a finger
Now and then to taste its
Progress. Humans blind
And dumb in its midst
Roil inside the growing heat.
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