DOWN THESE THREE ALLEYS
SUMMARY: I was going to answer my own challenge… but then I got distracted. Consider this as my contrariness. :-) The humans are not the only ones with propaganda. How about a piece of Shadow-thought on the upcoming war?
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Down these three alleys of shame
Walk three men – strong men,
Weak men, men without shame.
Down these three alleys they walk
And never shall they meet –
Never pause in their anger to talk.
Down these three alleys of shame
Walk three men casting about
For a scapegoat to blame.
Down these three alleys they'll search
For an innocent to sacrifice
For God, Sin, Mankind and Church.
Down these three alleys of shame
Walk three men deaf to the screams
Of those they broke to tame –
Down these three alleys, walking abreast
They ignored pleas for help and for mercy –
In their crusade there could be no rest.
Down these three alleys of shame
Walk three men – half men, almost men,
Not really men: deaf, blind and lame.
Down these three alleys they crawl
On their hands and feet. Oblivious,
They believe they're standing tall.
Down these three alleys of shame
Walk three men talking of a 'cause' –
A goal, a calling, a noble aim.
Down these three alleys a child cannot last –
Not with the burning and lynching
And all things ignored in the wake of the blast.
Down these three alleys of shame
Male can be female and female, male.
Species to prophecy does not pertain.
Down these three alleys walk these heroic three –
Ignorant of the future, the past and the now:
The one who was, the one who is, and the one who will be.
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