The Bear Has A Toothache

© 𝕾𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖍 𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖗𝖆

 

(penned Feb 2022 originally)

 

WhatsCrapp generals

Keyboard colonels,

Invade chat groups, 

With gleeful scoops.

Shamans and quacks

Of previous weeks.

Are history scholars now

And geopolitical geeks. 

History, rehashed

Previous ones trashed. 

New tales forwarded

Old versions, discarded.

The Bear swats its neighbor

The Eagle rattles his sabre.

The Dragon watches, prancing,

The Elephant, tap dancing.

EU... indeed, all the world is a stage,

Full of drama, pathos, full of rage.

I look around sadly

And keep asking why,

When old men fight

The young men die. 

© 𝕾𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖍 𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖗𝖆

 

PS: "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons" - Herodotus