get them ready by sending in the cheerleaders to diss the enemy and laud the home team
tell them the blood of their children flows like honor...
from the bullets arise red badges of courage
Peace I think
Peace poetry too afraid of being didactic to take a side
for a few lines and then... carried away again by the raging one
who is usually best kept chained away
total war
for total peace
fought by spies and snipers and death squads and satellites
and drones that fly in like toy airplanes and blow who ever
straight to where ever
guerilla warfare fought by Obama's Generals
who talked too much or are walking down the wrong street on the wrong day
or born into a family with a son who went too far for the americans
tossing out the idea of boarders and courts and jurisdiction
we loose the vicious dogs of wars and then turn away from the carnage
the
killing and killing and killing
until every village is safe for every child
until there is enough justice for the rebels to lay down their arms
until another generation is left to pick up the pieces broken by their elders
to rebuild in the rubble and ashes left after the armies raged through
we hunt each other block by block
use police work to catch the other soldiers
the underground fighters of al queda and whoever else hates the states
from the homegrown to the just too damn distant to know us at all really
they always say they have nothing against the american people
just the politicians
try to win us over so we will pressure our governments to stop the wars
what they believe is our on-going crime against them
to the convinced some are heathens and some are chosen and of course of course
they all feel like they are chosen
act as crazy as the originators of such ideas
the inbred royalty
who believed no other family worthy of breeding with their own
you can't warn the civilians to leave or your targets will take off, too
ain't you daddies war
without that trial though... without that uniform
we ended up torturing innocent kids sold to soldiers by criminals
became the monster we fought/the cruelty we had toppled
the battlefield now spreads to the internet and newspapers and tv
a complex game of psychological warfare aimed
as much at the audience of the soldiers as the troops themselves
war fought behind a high fence of lies
reported by good looking people on the news
who seem to be reading from the 'The Stars and Stripes'
keeping their toes on the party line/suspicious about it/l
ike a child avoiding cracks that break their mothers back
we hunt them down by the internet and phone and spies and calls from strangers in the night
watch them awhile and then strike
I hear the new president
who promised peace
is now openly warring on terrorists globally
sending the special forces in to take out our enemies before they can strike
taking the war into their living rooms -- where they die in operations that takes their families too
the blunt words of war
death and destruction
no getting around the very worst crimes known to man to fight a war
kill people and destroy property
KILL PEOPLE AND DESTROY PROPERTY
the orders given to soldiers are the exact opposite of what they are told all of their lives
then we wonder why they cannot adjust their minds back into civilian lives?
THOU SHALL NOT KILL
becomes a commandment that no longer applies/a sin turned virtue
we at war
now
all over the spinning globe
at every airport
they have to watch for enemies now
or risk being preyed upon
I dream of a day fought for and won where peace is offered not as an option
but a given
the way things are
I don't care if it takes one world cops to tame the wild convulsions in humanity
an army with no country operating with impunity
taking down the corrupt officials grown too powerful for the local cops
the mass murderers and gougers
Obama is doing a full court press
Expanding the war beyond Bush
Taking on pre-scientifica-head-in the assica all over the globe
I don't want war but I don't doubt that others do
and to do nothing... avoid response
wait with the shades drawn
knowing just outside all Hell has been let loose
welcome to world war three
if you will
if you don't count the constant battles we have been fighting
all along
hidden in the shadows and with out right soldiers
with aide to student groups in cold war countries
a disease has infected a religion itself
Holy Words become Battle cries
God all enmeshed in blowing people up
and throwing rocks at soldiers
makes me want to puke
God does not cause war
man does
God does not stop war
man does
I feel the presence of the soldiers around the earth
feel their quickened heart beats as they cover a forheead with a cross hatch
as they lay dying
as they attend the wounded
as they wonder what the hell they are doing in the middle of this shit when they would rather be doing
just about anything else
hyped on speed and whatever it takes to come down on time to take commands
no use denying some men are going to fight
and no use denying that we better get this over with before someone uses a nuke
stop the war with war the masses are told
I understand this smacks of an oxy-moron
total war for total peace
that is where we are for good or bad
not a prediction but a fact
we want peace here in the states
we have to choose battlefields
because they hate us and are coming
whether we deserve it or not
and their numbers swell with every death
gone from saviors to arrogant masters to targets
just kids dying in dusty streets
for noble ideas that dissolve in the pain of bullets
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