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# Wishful Thinking
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/wishful-thinking/
- Published: 2022-02-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: wishful thinking yields to orders tanks are crossing over borders echoes of forgotten wars as the bear, defiant, roars
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

wishful thinking yields to orders  
tanks are crossing over borders  
echoes of forgotten wars  
as the bear, defiant, roars

would that we were as we should  
but we've learned all the wrong lessons  
weakness always gets aggression  
while we navel gaze and brood