Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Poem
What's wrong with our leaders?
Why do they fight?
Is it for them to say
which system is right?
This leader is a tyrant
He's scary and bold
He thinks so little
of those men, dead, now cold
So many have died,
It's plain to see
The leader in the wrong here
is George.W.B.
Could Tony have stopped him?
He at least could have tried,
Now it's too late for
The many who've died
We are all guilty
of saying but naught
and we should be saddened
and take them to court
Children are dying
Our world is in shreds
We can trust just no-one
Not the police or the Feds
America is leading us
To where I daren't ask
But I can see this
We haven't learnt from the past
Can they not see
Death has no place
In living as we should
As a civillised race
We have this in common
If you prick us we bleed
nothing can change it
so ignore the other's creed
When you look at Mandela
Or at Churchill or a king
Do you see a great leader
Or the colour of their skin?
Liberating Iraquis?
Freeing their souls?
But no, they're not free now
fear in heart and home
Just another tyrant
now holds their reins
And scared as they are now
it's not going to change
People of America!
England and Spain!
be ashamed of your leaders
Stop death in our name
War is not needed
It must now be true
I couldn't kill an innocent
Now think, could you?
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Its a question you can't answer until you're stood there holding the gun I think.
Could I kill in cold blood? I very much hope I couldn't.
Could I kill in self-defence? I'd like to think I'd take an alternative route if one was available.
If one wasn't? I'm not sure... I think I'd probably do what needed to be done.
Pacifism is a great ideal, but I don't think its true that there is absolutely always an alternative to violence, as distasteful as it is.
A friend of mine once said if he was faced with someone who wanted to kill him, he would rather die than attack the person. I think I'd at least try.
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