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Pawns Played Poorly

People aren't pawns...pushed to places strategically but the more I seem to disagree....with this pawnscape, politically My stomach sours watching a globe played like games of "Risk" or Chess to bring back that we are not your pawns Our sons and daughters weren't put here to further this!! My brothers, your sisters aren't here to burden this!! Yet, at every moment one of them dies...no one can see their casket coming home? At this very moment some soldier stands watch, alone. He knows as we, this war's wrapped in absurdity sugar coated fear campaign, has all but stole our dignity Like Tyrants sweeping through... calling this Mission:Pillage Ransacking village and town, turning it all upside down And putting it back in an order we choose... Its sad to see any good deeds we've done--undone If even our intentions had ever been to "free them" You can't force-feed your brand of "Freedom" At all costs end a Genocide!! But at which point you must stand aside... People find a level...much like water But not when surrounded by opportunists occupying, law defying....bleeding the land of its worth So then who's worse? So sad we could leave them even asking this!

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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