War Against Terror?
 



Hunt on wardogs, seek, scent, destroy

but,

do not try to pretend this is more or less

than a new game, a new toy,

new lives to end

Bring your marines and their backup teams

Try to make us all embrace, extra wide doors and

plastic taste, show us your shiny grin and tell us how

you can fit us all in.



Only you, it seems, may hold the key to dreams.

Only your ideas are valid in this world of pain.



Gentle Buddha can't compete with the stamp of

marching US feet, Mohammad's mountain moves away

but

like the truth, as seen by us, it grows stronger every day.

Freedom lives in the minds and hearts

of all who see and hear through you and yours.



Don't pretend, don't lie, don't tell us fairy tales

Perhaps you can blindly conceal what you really are

from the broken minds of those who voted

and gave you the button... but I see behind the mirror

I see


I see



You talk of freedom, you believe in yourself,

but you want the world to look

pleasing to you, safe to your safe, free to your free

Would you be surprised to know, it doesn't seem like that

to me?

Because we know that you don't love us, we know

you are just... hungry.

The world watches you dance with wolves

We see how you smile, how you love the teeth

Terrorise us if you must, but do not pretend

it is we

who are the terrorists



To George Bush, may his legacy by quickly forgotten....

By Carey Lenehan

© 2005 Carey Lenehan (All rights reserved)

 

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