Homs

A veto against the Syrian people

Al-Arabiya News, 8 February 2012

Do not blame

China and Russia

for the carnage their veto

commands:

the spinning bottle

knows no magnetic north.

When the rain in Spain

was bombs

and Britain stared down

the bottle’s throat

we too chose to sit around

on our hands.

Do not honour the fallen

or their sacrifice;

it’s happening over again

in Homs.

(c) 2012 Slush Poet