Paris 1919
A shattered world a hundred years ago
Leaders meet
Countries are redrawn
War guilt is assessed and payment set
Millions dead
Mixing into mud
Lost unknown unburied
Gone for good
To think that we would do it all again
And this time worse
More dead
A world insane
And since that time
My life has been in peace
Korea yes and Vietnam
For wars shall never cease
And genocide in Africa
Iraq and Arab spring
But on my continental shelf
I hardly feel a thing
But Putin is our problem now
This issue unaddressed
The prayers we said for Russia
At the end of the old mass
We need to pool our efforts
To find a way to peace
Or Boris Johnson playing Churchill
Will bring us to our knees
Poland was the issue in 1939
But quickly forgotten
As the war hit overtime
And Ukraine is our trigger
But may soon fall down the list
If the powers go full tonto
And the world is consumed in dust
Brian Fahy
4 February 2023
Erris Poetry 