Forces Of Destruction

The exceptional nations of the world;
advanced technologies, knowledge-based
economies imbued with social conscience,
forge a self-protective alliance of
military strength propped by socially
progressive values. To them, human
rights entitlements and responsibilities
express their motivating stimulus.

Tasked with the mission to intercede
on a war front designated under the UN's
"responsibility to protect" moral doctrine
they advance air-propelled strength to
diminish the forces of destruction
launched by a tyranny to subdue and vanquish
their own during a peoples' uprising.

As the dictator's iron might rains down
deadly missiles and rockets on the civilian
army of peaceful protests, encircling and
isolating, sealing escape routes, shelling
homes and civil infrastructures, hospitals
and schools, the world watches and waits.

Awaiting an outcome much like reading
the closing gripping pages of a popular
action novel; like viewing the final stages
of an oft-resurrected play on humanity's
inability to censor itself, restrain its
most basest instincts; choosing any
dimension of action as long as it fails to
reflect that of a peaceful, talented muse.