GAME OF DEATH

Racketeers play games of death
That keeps the human race at war,
Happily watching millions dying
Just to see that their profits soar.

While profiteers start a new Hell
To send the young all off to die,
The UN idly twiddles its thumbs
Watching myriad corpses go by.

Never-ending war games
Keep the public silent,
Unaware of how their taxes
Have been badly misspent.

While people live outside
Existing in crates or cars,
The endless wars continue
Leaving cancerous scars.

People sleep on benches
Bitter and put upon,
While our tax dollars help
Keep the 20-year war going.

Newspapers for blankets
Paupers are sleeping outside,
The unscrupulous make fortunes
Laughing as innocents die.

Exploitive creatures leach dollars
From out of the public purse,
Murderers or evil hitmen
Or something very much worse.

These vipers destroy whole nations
Selling their latest death machines,
All in the name of making profits
Through actions truly obscene.

THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia