Paper Warriors
Citizen, consider choices nurtured,
at hand, leadership of the free world.
In a time of tumultuous world upheaval,
wars, rebellions, terrorists are in sway.
Torture, chemical warfare, ethnic genocide,
stagnant words on the mind and tongue.
Nuclear proliferation grows in hateful hands,
radical religious extremist rage as wild fire.
Who will stand elected Commander in Chief,
leader of the most powerful nation on earth?
Petitioners align in quest of leadership,
pouring words from lips in misty resolution.
Among the candidates in nations offer,
which placed boot to ground, hand to steel?
Where are the battle tested in choice,
those of iron will, reservoirs of experience?
Where are the proven men and women,
honored commanders of our military ranks?
Where in offer those held in earnest respect
by rank and file of our herald hero’s?
Spurn paper warriors posturing in grand example,
strutting blind boldness in pompous grandeur.
Strangled strategies in scales of life
with no understanding of burns and scars.
This hour the world needs strength of character,
yet petitioners banter in personal insult, innuendo.
Brash boldness soils stature in phantom proposals,
promises spread as butter on hot bread.
What became the valued military leadership,
untested desk chair candidates seek reign.
This is a time for proven leadership, strength,
not posturing politicians and paper warriors.
Robert Gene Stoner Jr ©
3/12/16
Copyright © Robert Stoner Jr | Year Posted 2016
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