When Children have to die

Dedicated to Paul Wolfowitz, Danial Pearle, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheeney, Paul Bremer, Condalisa Rice, Colon Powell, George Bush and all the Neo conservatives who insisted it was a "Slam Dunk"

A beautiful child had to die
For the ugly war we fought
Politicians spinning lies
The little lives it cost

May bloody bands of roses
hang upon their heads
Painful thorns of annexation
For every child dead

A beautiful woman had to die
For the brutal war we fought
Hi tech smart atrocities
is what money wrought

May darkness fall upon them
Incompetent Architects of disaster
Rose colored tinted fantasies
Is what they were chasing after

They sent us into the valley
They had no f*****g clue
They set us up and used us
and then they lied to you

If there was any justice
They'd all be up on trial
Crimes against humanity
Prosecution of the vile

They got away with murder
Thousands of shallow graves
Thousands more in misery
Innocent lives they gave

Haunting cries of vengeance
of a generation tossed aside
Civilization's broken promise
When children have to die

Reviews

[KAOlmsted]

This is a very well written piece that leaves absolutely no ambiguity as to how you feel on the subject, and you have conveyed your thoughts most deftly. I like the anger peppered throughout, it adds the flavor of realism to the piece only you, having lived it, can provide. Well done.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Kimmer

[KAOlmsted]

Always my pleasure.

[Pete Langley]

This piece should be added to the memorial of the dead of every socalled righteous war - to remind every leader of every socalled enlightened society of the real cost of conflict. Profound thanks for this, Mark. P.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you pete

[quinfinn]

it is no secret that bush and cheney started the gulf war to make money with haliburton industries. there were no wmd as the idiots in chief called them, they knew there was no way to win a war of attrition with the nations of iraq and afghanistan, hell, the russians got their asses handed to them after ten years of fighting them,and it is all a big lie which has cost far too many billions to the american people and far too many lives for everyone involved....yes, a big snafu....fubar! excellent poem!!!!!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Quinfinn

[Will]

Oh my... Dark, angry, and oh so powerful! People forget that there are lives behind the statistics of a war: People and faces; mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, families and friends. I think that gets lost far too often. Far too many people agree with Josef Stalin, that "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic." We should never ignore human lives in the grand scheme of things.

But back to the actual piece! Great write, your use of rhyme is superb. I love the power and emotion behind all of your writing. Keep up the stupendous work.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you will