Another Bloody Sunday

FinsburyParkCarrots

Another Bloody Sunday sees
new orphans and new widows.
The day that Najaf disagrees
with forces in the shadows
of Pentagon bureaucracy,
who close newspapers down
(which call for more democracy
in their Iraqi town
against the threat of empire),
the ordered army push,
Commanded by 'phone wire
by pretzel-eating Bush.
Both sides leave dead the young and strong
Who fought for freedom's ring.
Both sides now see their causes wrong
and blood on everything.
Think about Najaf, now, George,
Next time you're at a dinner,
Before you get that well-known urge
To gloat, all-owning-winner:
Those people whom you said to free
because God loves to save
are grieving for their dead today
beside a new mass grave.

April 4th 2004

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=B878DF92-9997-4D57-9B153BA6CE0C206D&title=Coalition%20Forces%20Open%20Fire%20on%20Iraqi%20Protesters%2C%20Killing%2019

FinsburyParkCarrots

Bremner says "The people crossed the line;
The demonstrators this time went too far."
Something scratches in this mind of mine:
Dyer's words, just after Amritsar.

FinsburyParkCarrots

And now the loved ones of fallen US soldiers -
just young men, no more nor less -
have to live the rest of their lives
knowing that their darlings were slain today
under order to suppress
the very people they were sent away to free.
Lyrical poetry gets difficult
in the face of the unspeakable.

DopeBeastie

Originally posted by FinsburyParkCarrots

Lyrical poetry gets difficult
in the face of the unspeakable.

indeed it does