The evil they once did lives after them;

Once more, the monster they created, strikes.

But ever-strident hypocrites demand

that I condemn out loud those evil deeds.

They browbeat me, a great granddad who sees

fresh hell before me, each and every day,

in far-flung corners of this grieving world,

with tears that well up in my ageing eyes,

at images of newly orphaned babes,

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