Torture Is the Rash of the Disease

September 16, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is terrorism in memory of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

Today’s poem is about the illegitimacy of torture as a tool in the fight against terrorism.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Torture is the rash of the disease,

On which a diagnosis can be based.

Regarding information one might gain:

The free press must inflict the healing pain,

Uncovering the mange beneath the sleaze.

Restoring health requires each chain be traced

Even to the hearts such horrors graced.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/tortur.html. For more poems about terrorism and 911, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/terrorism911poems.html .

This week’s theme: Terrorism

September 11: So Did You Die of History

September 12: Soldiers Kill, for That Is Their Profession

September 13: There Is No Armor We Can Wear

September 14: To Our Loved One Far Away

September 15: Morphed to Somalia

September 16: Torture Is the Rash of the Disease