Путин

Путин 

by

Sabio

One more demonized,

Never have I seen.

Caricatured,

Vilified,

Maligned,

Reviled,

Villianized.

Yet you stand,

Compared to the others - 

The stone throwers - 

Head and shoulders above,

A saint by comparison. 

If you have killed,

So have they...

And greater more by far.

Didn't one say the other day,

"Turns out I am really good..."?

He meant, "at killing people."

You are no Mother Theresa

Nor are you Mandela,

Not by a stretch,

But more rational

More sensible,

More of a leader than the rest

You appear to be.

And...

As incongruous as it might seem,

Perhaps the deliverance

Of this unipolar world

Rests with you.

[photo art by Ric Couchman]