12-16-2024, 05:05 AM
Hostage Poem
What are they, these
lights in the night,
so like to drones
of our own making?
Are they Russian
to avenge
aid to Ukraine
that leaves them weeping?
Vengeful ifrits
from Iran,
meant to disrupt
inauguration?
China sent them,
products of
resentment and
fear of containment?
Or might they be true
UFOs
relieved to throw off
old disguises?
A hostage poem, to
fortune. Soon
we’ll know the truth–
or, lucky, not.
What are they, these
lights in the night,
so like to drones
of our own making?
Are they Russian
to avenge
aid to Ukraine
that leaves them weeping?
Vengeful ifrits
from Iran,
meant to disrupt
inauguration?
China sent them,
products of
resentment and
fear of containment?
Or might they be true
UFOs
relieved to throw off
old disguises?
A hostage poem, to
fortune. Soon
we’ll know the truth–
or, lucky, not.
Non-practicing atheist