Civilians Rag Doll Collateral Damage Poem by Terence George Craddock

clown racist rhetoric
speeches for soldiers
justified licence to kill

speeches spelling out theatres
of war for illiterate soldiers
mind map motivates crossing borders

war obey propaganda glorious leaders
crossing borders with steel teeth
claws steel knives for hands

grenades for gifts
bombs to blow foreign families apart
earning pretty ribbons bits of tin

just reward for slaughtering
poor fools wearing
another countries

armies uniforms
or killing displaced countless
wrong place time innocent defenceless

civilians tossed aside
rag doll collateral damage
with nowhere safe to run


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
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