Verses on the Death of Dr Kissinger

Diplomacy has lost a titan's voice:
A champion of democracy and choice
Who helped to give the good old USA
That destiny still manifest today.

(Latinos, too, he hammered into shape:
Death-squad democracies from Gulf to Cape.)

All students of the governmental art
Admire him as a diplomat apart:
His peace prize an achievement truly rare,
For making of a peace that wasn't there

(While rolling back the tides of Red disease
To rescue Nam from the Vietnamese).

Though from the Nazis he was forced to flee,
He proved himself our kind of refugee;
And though it's very likely he did not
Thank Hitler, it's a fact he learned a lot.

Ward Cole