A Suicide Bomber Looks Back Poem by Tony Ogunlowo

A Suicide Bomber Looks Back



Saddam was bad enough
killing us all
in random fits of anger
- or madness!

Then the Americans
came to liberate us
- or so they say!
And they're
twice as bad!

They kill us indiscriminately
- or in 'error'
arrest us because we
wear 'a rag on our heads'
whilst
promising us democracy.

The Fat Cats
they 'elected'
for us
are getting fatter
- new 'Saddams'
ruling without uniforms
and we are
still
dying in poverty.

My house
bombed
by American warplanes
('in error')
My wife,
my children
all crushed
and dead!

My life is finished!

My bomb
is strapped around my waist

Allah is great!

Today, I'll see Paradise,
the
infidel will rot in Hell!

B-O-O-O-O-M! ! ! ! ! !

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Oladehinde J Ibikunle 01 November 2013

I love this. Showing the mindset and circustances upon the plains of Africa.

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