Eighty US troops
have been sent
to neighboring Chad
in a growing international effort
to rescue the girls
kidnapped by the Nigerian
extremist group Boko Haram.
With great power
comes the great responsibility
to recognize if
and if so when and how
power should be used
so that might can make
or at least contribute
to right.
Sometimes you should stand back
sometimes you should meddle
but sadly
even morally-necessary meddling
holds risk
and the only thing to do
is prepare for it
and head into the storm.
This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.
