meddler

when Kissinger was shaping policy
he fancied he could play the world like chess
the public only later got to see
his covert hand that wrought this global mess
it's taken decades to appreciate
the cost of trampling Human Rights abroad
four billion  people look on us with hate
where he had thought to leave them over-awed

his latest protégé deems it's her turn

behind the throne, he'd wield his old dark power
no prosecutor ever seems to learn
he should be serving time in some dark tower
the Church Committee failed to exorcise
Dick Nixon's minister of tricks and lies