Freedom Fighter
Freedom fighter
You’ve been sent there
Just to paint
All those red flowers
Scarlet dots of pain
On that baby’s shirt
You the soldier
Are you well aware
Of your friend
Loosing arm or leg
All of this in vain
For square miles of dirt
Hey man,brother
The carpetbagger
Lies all he can
Gets you to bring warfare
On your fellow men
You shoot them like ducks
Look out yonder
Brothers and fathers
All over the land
It’s time to beware
It might be the end
Fighter for a couple of bucks
You’ve been sent there
Just to paint
All those red flowers
Scarlet dots of pain
On that baby’s shirt
You the soldier
Are you well aware
Of your friend
Loosing arm or leg
All of this in vain
For square miles of dirt
Hey man,brother
The carpetbagger
Lies all he can
Gets you to bring warfare
On your fellow men
You shoot them like ducks
Look out yonder
Brothers and fathers
All over the land
It’s time to beware
It might be the end
Fighter for a couple of bucks
posted by GPV at 12:56 AM
8 Comments:
So many there, believing their leader has sent them on a noble mission. Amazing how the "Wag the Dog" director can get even the actors to believe in the storyline. My prayers go out to those soldiers who are blindly led and even more for those who know the truth. In knowing the truth, the daily struggle must be near unbearable and I really wonder if there are any suicide statistics for surely there must be some who take their own life so they don't continue to kill others. It is all too much, all too sad.
Peace............
Helen's comment summed it up well.
Your poem hit me in my gut for all wars.
Peace
still we all sit in thrall to the same dick heads who we elect, not to blow the world up, and who so soon forget why we elected them in the first place. to represent us.
hah!
like hell they do.
they represent oil tycoons.
they represent powerful voters.
the represent big business BUT, one thing is for sure, they do not represent US.
Righto so much so.
Hi GPV... missed your presence and just wanted to see how you were doing...
Just had to say that that is one amazing poem. Really hits home all the stuff we humans really ought to be thinking about.
Great surreal writing too btw...
xoxox
veracity/~Silk~
Oh vera, so glad to read you,How are you? Thanks for your kind comment.
As helen says...
peace-------------
I'm fine tq. Hope you and family are well. Missed visiting your blog so i came back... :)
Yeahh nice to hear from you.
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