Never forget
Never forget the blood that was shed
Never forget the lives lost
Never forget the blood that was shed
Never forget the lives lost
In the rubble
The grieving widows and children
Lovers and
Grandparents and
Siblings and
Relatives and
Friends
Never forget the sound of screaming
Sirens and
The silence that comes in the face of cataclysm --
Frozen in disbelief and fear
Never forget the bodies that piled up
One after another
After
Another
First hundreds
Then thousands
Then only pieces to be identified
Later...
Never forget that this all happened before
Today
How we toppled governments like dominoes
And put our puppets into play
Never forget the bombs that were dropped
Some Where
Over There
Decimating whole buildings
Whole blocks
Whole cities
Without a thought
Never forget that
"Legitimate Target
has sixteen letters
and one
long
abominable
space
between
two
dehumanizing
words."*
The grieving widows and children
Lovers and
Grandparents and
Siblings and
Relatives and
Friends
Never forget the sound of screaming
Sirens and
The silence that comes in the face of cataclysm --
Frozen in disbelief and fear
Never forget the bodies that piled up
One after another
After
Another
First hundreds
Then thousands
Then only pieces to be identified
Later...
Never forget that this all happened before
Today
How we toppled governments like dominoes
And put our puppets into play
Never forget the bombs that were dropped
Some Where
Over There
Decimating whole buildings
Whole blocks
Whole cities
Without a thought
Never forget that
"Legitimate Target
has sixteen letters
and one
long
abominable
space
between
two
dehumanizing
words."*
What is a life compared to an agenda?
Never forget
So you can remember
That war never brings peace
That blood shed
Never brings back the dead
That a life lost is a life lost --
No more than any other...
Never forget.
*from "The Pedagogy of Conflict" by Padraig O Tuama from his book Sorry for Your Troubles
