Thank you for your service,
and obeying orders
This shows your obedience to
your superior officers
You do as you are told to do,
and kill, bomb and maim
An order, is an order in the
world of war games
You help to destroy countries
that never invaded yours
Blindly following orders,
from Madams and Messieurs
Conditioned to obey: stand to
attention, and salute
An order, is an order, to
obey and quickly execute
You can kill “legally”
provided it is an order
Though sometimes an order, is
responsible for murder
But that is not your concern,
you are told to obey
So just carry on killing: as
your principles decay?
The slaughtered children of Yemen, Libya,
Syria and Iraq
Many are dead many are
maimed, and are traumatized from attacks
All this destruction, death,
killing, bloody gore and carnage
This is called, “serving your
country” amidst all this hellish damage
None of these countries
attacked or invaded us
Yet, we have attacked them,
and nobody creates a fuss
Instead “our leaders’” in
positions of power send you to do the fighting
And you obey their orders and
bomb and kill, while your leaders do the inciting
Imagine if it was your
children killed in illegal wars
How would you feel, would
that leave you scarred?
Some of you are sadly dead
and some of you are maimed
Is it really worth it to join
these armies of the warmongers and the insane?
Stephen J. Gray
December 3, 2018.
Links of interest:
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The Cost of War
Includes at Least 253,330 Brain Injuries and 1,700 Amputations
