A Foreign Hand

I wish I was there to watch Rome as it fell

how would we feel if a foreign hand

should kidnap our leader and steal our land?

would we feel better if we were told

it’s for our sake and not our gold?

wouldn’t we in the face of their hubris recoil

if they claimed for their safety they needed our oil?

we’ve been here before a thousand times

the same old criminals, the same old crimes

instead of sentences, they were given awards

wearing smiles and ties while severing cords

bossing around other states, picking a fight

what in the hell could give them the right?

I don’t know what to say, but words can’t wait

may you Venezuela be spared Iraq’s fate

the US still thinks it can do what it wants

and nothing will happen to the power it flaunts

I wish I was there to watch Rome as it fell

what finally did it, that their home is now Hell?

Your regular reminder that democracy is an illusion: months of imperial harassment boiled over as the United States bombed Caracas today, kidnapping the Venezuelan president along with his wife, and Trump explicitly declared that the US would run Venezuela in his stead and assume control over the nation’s oil industry “to make Venezuela great again.”