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!
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