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The last vestige of shame
our Special Forces feel
for abandoning the Kurds,
our ablest warrior allies,
is pure attar in the rose
of battle grown in the garden
of the temporary victory
over ISIS and their allies.
That rose has faded and died
on orders from our supreme leader
to betray and abandon
our loyal Kurdish brothers.
In future where can shame
bloom? Who now will share
the arid earth where Kurd
and Special Forces bled
Out their lives in hard-earned
mutual trust? The old words
—trust and shame and loyalty—
have wilted and died.
George Held, a longtime contributor to TheNewVerse.News, has a new poetry chapbook out, Second Sight (Poets Wear Prada, 2019).