Calculated Inaction

Now tell me what you gain

Through your heavenly grace and fiery rain?

Streets lie broken with ruins strewn, and

The children remain unknowing of their pain.

You wiped the decadent from here to

Start afresh and right your wrongs;

Why start with these scarred by the loss

Of those dearly loved and hope for the sun

To cleanse the memories of a bygone day?

Blow thy wind across our cheeks

And show the beauty of a world that

Now must live by rivers and creeks.

The old centres of life and death

Are no more thanks to the play of your hand!

The smirk of your clouds across the sky

Can’t disprove the futility of your work.

You split the earth and swallowed them whole,

You disparaged the air between the factions

And celebrated when many a mushroom sprouted,

Freezing the young through calculated inaction.

We shall judge you too one day –

Not through a fire like yours

And neither duplicate those fathers of ours.

Your fate is to kill your creation again

And again till the end of meaningless time.

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