Friday, August 28, 2020

The Greatest Victory

 

The Greatest Victory

                              By Keith Thomas

How many tears for
three hundred thousand souls
or More
How many    For just    one soul

What’s the market share A bull or a bear
Which best represents   a crying mother,
father, sister, brother        family
how much will the country bare
for all to see               a smaller number
the Official Representative compared
to the millions    not crying
not bothered by tears
for three hundred thousand    or more
Even times two        is a great Victory
    the greatest that has ever been

a few hundred thousand souls        a graph
for black bags of all sizes
where’s the graph for tears        cried
     for the hundreds of thousands
         Victory?  does it matter
If the tears are     young or old

Tears, for the tomorrows    never known,
glorious sunrises    never seen,
the masked heroes on the front lines
mixed in with the   hundreds of thousands

hidden in a graph,    a curve of time
A hateful high curve        without mercy
celebrated by the Good Jobs
dressed in their finery    as a Victory

with    flags    mixed in
with the hundreds of thousands
a smaller number
               but
good and faithful   servants 
               all

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