Poem #1263: Good Neighbor

 

Over 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees have crossed
 their nation's border into neighboring states
in the past 10 days.
Photo Courtesy: UNICEF

Russia, Russia
Stephen Kingesque
Sisters of Eluria
Polishing grotesque
With finesse and mastery
And a flattering of treachery
Purporting to heal
And when healing's done
It's all about Kill Bill
Here's a masterclass
On the Danse Macabre
You animate the past
With millennial massacre
You go hard
On civilian quarters
Wreaking harm
Yielding no quarter
You've lent a new definition
To the phrases, 'Brother's Keeper'
And 'Good Neighbor.'

Akpan