Thursday 19 November 2015

My Poetry: The Circle Continues




The circle continues

Terror rips through streets
Dust clouds from exploded bricks
Debris chokes those left
Who can breath
Innocent lives violently ended
Collateral damage
A euphemism for murder
And we wonder why
Farmers pick up arms
Radicalized youths seek
The oxygen of publicity
Retaliating tooth for tooth
In Western streets

Why is a bomb different
When dropped from military planes?
Why is the death of innocents
More bloodthirsty
In a white postcode?

The circle continues

How do you fight
An ideology?
How do you kill an idea?
How do you cut the head off
A headless beast?
Good men don’t win
To win you have to kill
And killing makes you bad
Murder leads to murder
An eye for an eye
Soon we will all be blind
Where do we stop?

The circle continues.

Killing to stop more killing
Is not an alibi.
If thou shall not kill
Becomes thou shouldn’t kill
Then alpha becomes beta.
Long ago
A fist became a rock
Became a knife
Became a bullet
Became a warhead
Became THE bomb.

The circle continues

We elect leaders
Who spend millions,
Employing the greatest modern minds
To engineer death.
Hey, ho, let’s go to war
Peace don’t pay the mortage
On million pound yachts
And Christmas is coming up,
So lets drop the BOMB,
And send your kids to war
So the puppeteers of war
Can put another naught
In big business accounts.

The circle continues

Have you ever wondered
Why suicide bombers
Are always young?
Why political elite
Arrive at the scene
With practiced homilies
Then sign treaties of war?

The circle continues.




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