Desperately Seeking Refuge

Pity, such a tenuously threadbare
link as fragile as a silk cord
binds us to the treasured fiction
of universal morality. Yet millions
of people desperate for survival uproot
themselves from all that has the 
comfort of familiarity and tradition
to escape a conflict their government
and its opponents pursue, with civilians
as the target. Their neighbours with
untold wealth use it to provide the
warring factions with munitions
loftily choosing to bypass extending
offers of haven and humanitarian aid
leaving those petty details to the
far-off bleeding hearts whose 
charitable empathy for the hunted
and the haunted can be cleverly
exploited to aid those whose lives
are of little concern to the masters
of imperial controlling destiny.