end justifying

caught in its own war crimes

command center beneath

a children’s hospital where newborns die without electricity to operate

their incubators

these little ones, offspring not of the enemy

but of its own people already

by decision condemned as sacrifice

for world propaganda

such utter devotion to cause

without reverence for human

right to live

is truly terrifying

MaryJane Nordgren

Author of the Nandria Series, MaryJane is a retired family practice physician who grew up in the Midwest but now lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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