blood debt

Maimed Lebanon gropes blindly for its head
but doesn't bother looking on the street.
'Though all the ledgers are awash in red,
persistently, they name the same elite.
Hariri's not yet done with al-Assad
who rubbed his father out, like a mistake.
So far, he's left revenge to courts, and God
but there's a limit to what he can take.

what could Orestes do in such a plight?
He's next of kin and must avenge the king.
In his dilemma, no decision's right;
the best of actions, consequences bring.

The Mehlis probe laid out the case full well
Assad has a hot date to keep, in Hell.

Orestes saw his duty, and proved true;
Elektra's orphaned by her brother's hand.
Good kids stood up to do what they must do
to purge the regicide taint from the land.

Orestes can't shrug off the family weight
Until Athena will adjudicate.

Orestes was ordained to break the spell;
Athena took him for her very own
Inventing courts to thwart the Hags of Hell.
Exiled from Mycenae, he found a home.

His father's murder cried out from the Earth.

Orestes knew what duty'd bid him do

to prove himself a pious son of worth.

but matricide's a Capital sin, too.

what could Orestes do in such a plight
he's next of kin and must avenge the king
in his dilemma, no decision's right
the best of actions consequences bring