WE GO 2 WAR
- Hughes/Maldonado, FUNK, 2008
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War
is just
decision
made in comfort
of palatial rooms
fed by self-interest,
ego, fear, fame, hatred, greed,
not counting cost of destruction
deaths, displacements, disabled lives, loss.
Trifling matter for decision-makers.
How many healthy lives wasted for this?
How many families wiped out clean?
How much money spent to keep up?
detonate, bombard, shell, blast,
decimate, shoot, snipe, spray,
raid, hostage, exchange?
Just red-blood spills
unjust deaths
nothing
else
i search for love in all the wrong places not knowing that it would cost me my heart oh how painful it was as i wash my heart being shattered in to million pieces i waited for someone to come to my rescue and help me put the pieces of my heart back together but no-one came my way and i was left in the cold to die alone i sometimes wonder where do i belong whether here or there i am tossed around like a ragdoll waiting to be held but once they have you they use you they hurt you and throw you away like a useless thing that has never existed why then should they constantly repetitively try and cheer me up when the substance of my joy is you they insisted to advise me to erase you of my mind but i tell them how can i when all that's on my mind its you what is to escape what are we escaping from is it not our nightmares is it what we cannot control is it the fear to lose the ones we love the most or the fear to be left alone and have no-one to be there for us
AS THE DAYS GO BY I WONDER IS IT THE DAY JOHN IS COMING BACK .AS I LAY IN BED STRUGGLING TO TO SLEEP I HEAR THRUNDERSTOMS.I SEE LIGHTING TREES FALLING.I WONDER IF I SING JONN FAVORITE SONG WILL I BE ABLE TO GO TO SLEEP.AS I HUM HIS SONG IAM ON MY WAY TO SLEEP.AS I SLEEP I DREAM OF HIM DANCING.SINGING.LAUGHING.AND SOMETIMES CRYING.I WONDER WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE IF JOHN WAS STILL HERE...........IN LOVING MEMORIES OF MY BABYFATHER JOHN MALDONADO....1988-2010
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