Wolves at
My Gate
An
allegorical warning from history on appeasement
by Joe B.
Hewitt
Wolves at
my gate, they snarl and stare.
They can’t
hate me. I don’t hate them.
They show
their teeth. They crouch and lunge.
To make
friends, be a friend, and care.
Surely
they’ll see I’m full of love.
One with
teats that sag, a mother,
Will see
that I’m a mother too.
My hand is
harmless as a dove.
She bites
me hard. My blood she licks,
I scream;
she snarls. Something went wrong.
It has to
be my fault somehow,
Or his
fault who says, “Kill the bitch.”
I’ll feed
the wolves. They’ll come around.
They eat.
Tails wag in contentment.
Wolves
don’t behave well when hungry.
Just keep
them fed. Peace will abound.
My child!
Bitten and bloody died.
Deepest
grief, my child, cold and pale.
Could she
have provoked the wolves?
She may have
hurt their pride.
Let’s show
them goodness, they’ll be good.
Let’s open
the gate. Let them in.
Show them
how we try to understand.
Welcome
them to the neighborhood.
(NOTE: People coddled up to the Communists, believing that if
we just loved them they would love us. In August, 1950, after the North Korean
Army pushed the South Koreans and Americans south into Pusan in southeast
Korea, the Communists first order of business was to kill off the
intellectuals, many of whom had sympathized with them.
During the war in Viet Nam, many Vietnamese
intellectuals cozied up to the Communists, thinking they would reciprocate. In
the 1968 Tet Offensive, the Communist troops made killing them their first
priority.
Now some are bowing to Islamist extremists with the
same mind set. They are wolves at our gate.
If we let them in we can shower them with sweet goodness. But then they
will do as their nature demands, conquer, subjugate, and humiliate.
In the 21st Century we have an enemy,
unseen and stealthy, a movement to minimize America. As if feeling guilt for
our nation’s greatness, these people want to bring the United States down. This
movement is establishing a voter constituency of people who look to government
to provide. A great portion of the producers’ hard work goes to support those
people who can but won’t work and an inflated bureaucracy, all non-producers.
This enemy is hard to identify and confront because it
is ever changing and morphing into different shapes, but continues in the same
mission.
These too are wolves at our gate.
---Joe
B. Hewitt) www.joebhewitt.net
