Symbols and Ideologies

Symbols representing ideologies
often result in catastrophes
causing human miseries
for which the perpetrators
never render apologies.

The swastika and burning cross
caused a plethora of human loss
and now we have the 'jihad',
a fanatical, religious fad,
with killers gone mad
who shout and yell,
'kill the infidel'
or some other insanity
to serve a chauvinistic vanity
with millions destined
to suffer or die in vain
which no one can explain,
except for the Bard
who held the key
when he wrote long ago,
'what fools these mortals be'.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2009 Alfred Charasz