Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Does This Deface The Flag?


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

NOT LIKE TV

How can my words communicate
The things that I have seen?
Civilians may well pose or prate,
Their souls as though pristine;

But I have seen the truth of it
Which I may never tell,
Deserving of my Maker´s spit
And getting sent to hell:

Death was ubiquitous around
In which we did take part,
While lily-lives I would astound
By tearing out the heart.

To see the limp and mangled thing
Returning from the void
A kind of stare: dead child, we bring
Terror in war deployed.

Dead bodies smushed upon the road
Because some Fedayeen
Were hid nearby; yet what we sowed
Can never be made clean.

Civilians back at home believe
The value of diversion,
But game-shows on TV deceive
While I have true immersion.

Therefore I know, if there be God,
Then I am most deserving
To go to hell, because abroad
In duty never swerving,

I served my country and I did
What I was ordered to,
The truth of which, forever hid
Nor will I tell to you.