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Thank You Mr. President
by J. P. DaviesBabys burn in the rubble
they tear it down only to build it back up
How many must die before vengeance is done
I fear for those with no voice who lie entombed
in their own houses. Help never came.
Thank you Mr. President for giving us your bombs
we welcome you with open arms and hands full of history
we stole the very culture from the birthplace
of civilization...between tigress and euphrates
Thank you for tapping the oil
thank you for killing Saddam, oh wait,
we don't know if he breathes anymore.
Thank you for distracting attention
from the slumping US economy
Thank you for turning 2000 civilians
into martyrs under the stars and stripes
when terror strikes and kills
we must kill back isn't that how it works
I guess two wrongs make a right
when the end justifies the means
Thank you for ending lives that are precious
killing fathers, brothers, aunts, uncles,
cousins, sisters, mothers. Is it in your power
to give life back?
Then why take it away...
As bombs rain down on a city in ruins
and looters rush around in anarchy
the babys lie dead in the rubble
04/23/2003
Author's Note: Musings on the tragedy of war...
Posted on 04/24/2003
Copyright © 2024 J. P. Davies
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Jane E Pearce on 04/24/03 at 04:56 PM J.P.-this is excellent nad in the voice of Iraqui civilians. I really believe the coalition did everything possible to keep the death of civilians down. I was very much against the war. I worried about all the Americans that would come back in body bags and the people over there who would be killed. But as things unfolded, and I heard from the Iraquis how they had been under the watchmen of Saddam 24/7 for thirty years, Then there was the picture of an Iraqui kissing an Americn soldier on the front of a news magazine. Saddam was a madman who killed and tortured people who disagreed with him. I lived through Hitler's reign in Europe in WW2. I wish someone had stepped in before he gassed and tortures six million Jews and others. One million, five hundred thousand children died in the camps. No, we can't sanction aggression that can be fatal to millions of others. Unfortunately there are sacrifices to obliterate the madmen.
Jane |
| Posted by Trisha De Gracia on 04/24/03 at 06:00 PM I like it. This piece is a stong slap in the face for some people, and it should be... this one of ur best ones yet. |
| Posted by Jean Mollett on 07/21/03 at 06:03 AM Hi JP,
Good one. I'm glad to see how someone else feels about it. And Jane knows all to well what bit's about. Too many inocent people getting killed. And then we go back and rebuilt them, doesn't make since. We're still losing soldiers, not including oter people over there, that has nothing to do with it. Lord help us. Jean |
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