Another War

ANOTHER WAR To kill another man in the name of liberty Is the rehashed creed of global greed To some a country is free only if It deserves to be No thought for the individual calamities Visited on the citizenry The conspicuous lack of a coherent Long term plan is galling We are led to believe That the gun will solve all and Democracy must echo from The west to all parts of the globe Machismo rules the day The headlong rush into battle Is fuelled by testosterone Destruction as always is its intimate bedfellow With No thought by the combatants Of the Day after victory The bodies that litter the path of freedom And hinder its progress Are food for the media Whose interest feeds the vicious cycle Of the desecration of humanity For short term gain Economics has infiltrated politics Business men fool Blind law makers And selfishly rule the day The gun of freedom is followed By the grasping hands of trade The debacle of lives illegally lost Is but a boardroom coup A dangerous game we play When we infiltrate another polity To interfere and set it free Democracy after all has lots of pseudo varieties Why must we champion one way to control Over another with its local peculiarity? The decision to go to war Must never be taken lightly