Only an idiot would....

Only an idiot would try to
put out a fire with fire

and when that idiot does get
the freedom or let's say the blessings
to try to do just that
only two things happen
first it makes the fire worse or
for a simpleton like me, bigger
and the second thing that's guaranteed
is the destruction of the whole thing that
was engulfed and the fire will burn out
after all the nearby oxygen is sucked out or
when there's nothing left to burn.

Let's remind the seeing blind
shooting of a weapon is
also called fire
and retaliation
is called 'return fire'.

Violence by uniformed personnel
or say authorised personnel
is not called violence but simply
'operaiton' or whitewashed as 'action'.

let's imagine a world where
the news headlines read
2 hostage takers were killed
as a result of police violence in
the line of their duties.

violence by military
be it just or not
is violence
we are told
and sold guns as roses
and we do remember the
fallen victim/perpetrators of violence
with poppies on remembrance days.

using a flame gun
to tame a burning coal mine
is no answer
the only three solutions are flooding the mine,
completely cutting out the oxygen supply or
getting rid of the fuel supply
 
Let's say the burning coal mine
is Syria-Iraq,
what we see happening there?
fire is raining from skies and ground
leaving and scattering embers
to engulf even more neighbouring areas
both as reactions from the near one's of innocents who've got
none and nothing to live for and burning in vengeance
and to whom religion can go jump- just like
a raped mother's plea to her now manic son to spare
her rapist

Consequence is
more fire
which leads to more victims and
more sparks/embers.

Can someone tell these idiots
who rule the world
that preparing more fuel supply
in the name of dousing the fires
across the globe with fire
that you do not need no Einsteins
to foresee the consequences.

They are ratcheting up rhetoric
to secure their own lot's future
and in the name of
securing their nations', preparing
a tinderbox of more human bodies
on both sides of the imaginary lines
they call borders,

can someone tell these idots...




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