Sunday, February 4, 2007

With all Due Respect- Presidents be Damned

A silence falls over us, as the night wears on
With fleeting images and empty thoughts
Another inch is covered...
Another body left behind, rots.

And then another scream resounds
Perhaps a father lost a son
Another body writhes in pain
As we wait for another dawn.

Crawling over mutilated heaps I wonder
Who has won this war today?
Up in the horizon dawn breaks out
Home is still far away.

As the firing starts again
I move on, inching forward...trying to crawl
And then the bullets pierce into me
Engulfed in screaming silence, I fall.

Yet another house is broken
Just another soldier has died
A few drops of oil have changed hands
Somewhere a grieving mother has cried.

Perhaps we need to rethink
Perhaps we need to realise
This life is as precious to me as to you
Then why do we kill to survive?

7 comments:

The New Age Superhero said...

oh.. simple yaa.. wars are fought 2 bring in peace :P

surrendering to reality said...

@ABW

haha..yes ofcourse...but does it always work that way?

The New Age Superhero said...

umm.. was being sarcastic yaa :)

heh? ok said...

umm, i think you two are going around in circles. and wars are fought because people are insecure.

surrendering to reality said...

@ heh

point taken...

Red said...

'Survive' is the key word here. I guess that most of us think of only our own life as precious.

surrendering to reality said...

@ red

true!