Killer on the road

What good and bad we do in a life. The scars will always stay with us.

Killer on the road


A Iraqi man sipping  his coffee.
He watches the military trucks drive by.

He look to the sky and murmur a pray.
I will miss you my wife, my children.
He caresses his chest. 
He feel the bomb wrapped tightly against his body.

His eyes are sad and he knows he has no choice.
They killed his brothers.
They came to his country and torn it down to rubble.

He believed in a eye for a eye. 
He will be in paradise soon.
Tears fall from his eyes as he think of his wife sleeping alone.

Soldier with M-16 loaded and ready.
He tells his buddy going to be a good night.
Going to kill a few of them damn  terrorist.


His buddy with a bible in his hand.
Pray to survive the night without firing his guns.
He whisper  I pray I make it through the night.
Please lord keep me safe and let me go home soon.


The city is quiet and the soldier are on alert.
The gunner pass the coffee to his friends.
Tells him my eyes are seeing ghosts again.

 
He watches the morning light began to appear.
He thinks of a mother and father waiting and hoping to see him.
He makes a mental note to call them tomorrow.


A middle age Iraqi man walked down the street in the early morning.
His hands are sweating.
He see two soldiers guarding a government building.

The gunner asks his buddy was the man a ghost in the distance?
He put the bible down and tells him he is real.

The soldier looked at his bible.
Points his weapon at the man.
He raise his hand to halt the Iraqi Man.

The Iraqi man screams out his daughter name and Allah.
Runs toward the soldier.

The soldier aim his M-16 and shoot three rounds into the man chest.

The Iraqi man falls dead.
The soldier goes to him.
Fall and ask god to forgive him.

He open up and see the bomb and photos.
It still don't bring comfort to the soldier.

The soldier sit on his cot.
He hold pictures of a man's wife  with two children.
He wonder why he has to kill this man?

He should of been home tossing a football with his brother or something. 

He cries for the Iraqi he killed.
Old Sargent said he was a hero.
Those terrorist are just killers on the road.
Waiting for us to end their misery.
He bring his bible to his heart and tries to sleep.

The gunner wake him up.
He tells him we are on again tonight.


He puts the bible on the table.
Dresses  into battle gear and walk out of his tent.
He leave the bible tonight on the table.

He had bad dreams.
He dreams he was the killer on the road.

He would do his duty and go home.
He don't talk of God or Jesus anymore.
He just wishes for the blood to leave his hands.

The gunner smile.
He yelled maybe we can kill a few tonight.
His buddy smile and stare at the road.

                      Coyote

                                 

Author's Note

War leave no winner. Vietnam and Korea left scar for a generation of young men and woman. These Wars of today will be the scars for the next 60 years or more.

Reviews

[Angel's Lady]

Your war stories are so poignant to me...my friend over there, I wonder, how many men has he killed? Will those scars affect him when he's home with his wife and kids? I know they will, but will he realize it, or pass on the violence to those he loves....Great write, my friend.

[Sonali]

war is such a ruthless thing...u wrote the poem from both the sides and captured the truth.Many lives are shaken by war and generations suffer.War is just atool to show the superiority of one nation over the other but what good does it do?Nice piece! :)

[Natalie]

Really love this poem. I love how it tells the story from both sides. War is no joke. Going into war is running into the arms of death even though some come home alive. Great poem.

[Faceless Love]

Your author's note rings true. Sadly, your poem tells us the horrible "glory" of war. Insightful write.

[Bubo]

The problem is men fight for what they believe in, each side feeling their justified in taking a human life, one going to paradise, the other praying to get home, and suddenly these men don't even know what there fighting for, but see cost of war and human life, my father fought in ww2 as a young boy, and those memories shaped the man he became and the father, unemotional and ruthless. How many men will become as he did? How many lives ruined? You are right, generations.

[Gandré]

I find it outrageous, that anybody claims to own anything on this earth. It is not belonging to humans. Yet we do so, as if..... this is very sensible topic. Once people knew each other.. and they went to different places and didn't recognize each other anymore. There is a s number - I think, it is 180. They use it in economics. When a company is larger than this 180-200 people, then they don't have real relationships to each other, and the output is less than it could be. that's why in the past, the villages were hold small. People respected each other and knew each other. Now these mega cities, this striving for to be the best... the richest.... but there is always the opposite.. and so do countries. Someone is rich and someone is poor. All is endless manipulation, fraud, competition. And at the beginning of everything are POSSESSIONS. From there - striving for power. And then, we have wars. Wonderful, descriptive poem. Made me sad but that's exactly the right impact.

[Desert Dreamer]

Makes me think, and then to wonder who is fighting who. Who is benefiting from war? The more I think about the current wars the less I understand. I hear explainations offered but all of them feel like excuses for some hidden reason for war. Your story is powerful

Thank you for sharing.

[Blue tailed kite]

A very touching poem... the futility of war is something that we all ponder upon, no matter who wins, humanity seems to lose. It is a controversial topic, should we not fight for our motherland, to protect our family? But war results in a massive loss of life, and families which will never be protected again.

[BoSweets]

Absolutely chilling thought that Our Soldiers are experiencing these very things. thanks for the write. Peace BoSweets
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[Scout]

omygosh! this is sooo good! It shows both sides of the story which I have to say I really admire..... it is very sad but so realistic and it helps me learn how it is to be in the war.... very good

[jadia4708au]

war has got no solution.it has to be fought within to safeguard the territorial integrity of nation..only war monger can benefit out of it..good poem to read.