The most important man departs
from his old whitewashed residence,
painted often in the realms of a filmic past,
brushing the muddy vague realms of reality
that continues to scars his nations presence.

The most important man stutters
the scarred, scorching arid land of others
and plays with other powerful men
who speak the ancient foreign languages,
and are awash with abundant currencies. 

Houses bigger than his ever were
squat the land encircling regional disasters,
although these strangers used to live in tents
other powerful men changed their lives
when the black muck of industry wept riches
and other men came to play their games.

Earnest discussions through interpreters
talk of what is wanted from each other
keeping diplomacy above belligerence
and the menace of one force upon another
that happens to their weaker neighbours. 

Men covered in protection buy and sell
the height of defensive modern weaponry 
in the traditions of mass murdering armies,
place their bags of wealth before each other.