SONNET 18

(c)The United States "Policing the world since 1821" Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_interventions_of_the_United_States

Shall we observe you in a prying way?
Thou art more deceptive and transparent:
As rebels jounce with NATO in the fray,
And summer's war will further reveal your face:

Fraudulently, “the eye of heaven shines,”

Certainly, this escape, unproductive;

And as the lies and bombs intensify,

America’s hegemony locked in;

But thy eternal brute force shall not fade

Nor will the acquisition of resources;

Nor shall the debt owed to China be paid,

When in the face of truth most minds doth slowest:

So long as privileged western eyes don’t see,

So long lives this and perpetuates thee.