Hitler's Playground

by Yota Krili

The world seems to have become

like Hitler's playground

with so many leaders resembling him

with so many genocides

with so many refuge camps

with so many centres of torture

with so many stockpiles

of weapons of mass destruction

with so many means of mass deception

with so many parts of the earth

littered with the remnants of war

with fires like the one in"Old Reichstag"

becoming rekindled

with fraudulent wars

with storm-troopers breaking down doors

with religious zealots marching

with new laws bolstering the rich

with the war on terror in full swing

with the war on poverty forgotten

with destitution providing supplies

of child warriors, child slaves

child prostitutes

with human rights being discarded.

If the dead are watching the living Hitler must be grinning with joy.