CRIMES AGAINST PEACECrimes against peace have been...

2007-11-27T08:38:00.000-08:00

CRIMES AGAINST PEACE

Crimes against peace have been committed,
And would that they were tried,
Condemned, so be it, or acquitted
Defendants as would hide:
If there were justice in the world,
The men behind the deed
Ought have complacency imperiled,
Justice delivered, as would herald
Ghosts of the past be freed.

It was aggression unprovoked
And crime against world peace--
Though much of subterfuge was smoked
So to conceal, appease
The consciences of those involved;
But, I declare again,
With criminal intent resolved
They, wolves not easily out-wolved,
To cheat their fellow men.

Lord, even to the highest reach
Of power´s apparatus,
Let a just judgement, so to teach
Diminishment of status
Be retribution´s recompense
For what they have enacted,
Crimes contrary to common sense,
Crimes against peace, which this day hence
Shall never be redacted.

This people led by charlatans
Yet knew how to discern
The wrong from right, as any man´s
A boy who does not learn;
While this aggressive rape against
The peace be not excused
So easily--be recompensed
With justice, not of wrath incensed
But principle abused.

The quantity of victims need
Not an explicit counting,
Yet let the weight of separate deed
In aggregate amounting
Reveal the clear and present guilt
Of them--cloaked in "preemption"--
That did transgress; no pardon wilt
Though bond were paid by Vanderbilt--
How can there be redemption?

Lord, even criminals as do
Commit crimes against peace
May in repentance come to you--
Nor let such acts as these
By any man prevented be:
However let be made
Explicit verdict, that we see
From heinous trespass none is free
Though he may hide in shade.

The public good will not allow
The crimes to go unnoticed or
Unpunished--cries for justice now
Are heard from victims of this war.

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CRIMES AGAINST PEACECrimes against peace have been...