Dulce Et Decorum A Rant Poem by ivor or ivor.e hogg

What of the dead, the glorious dead.
The heroes who of whom it’s said
Laid down their lives in freedoms cause.
The men who died in foreign wars…

Whose freedom were they fighting for?
Whose liberty did they restore?
The history books do not make clear.
What right we had to interfere?

In other countries home affairs
or is it true nobody cares
about the plight of the oppressed
in any country East or West.

Unless the threaten our supplies.
It seems to me one rule applies.
We are prepared to tolerate
the tyrants ruling any state.

That can supply something we need
despite their cruelty and greed
We have no right to intervene.
Or double standards are obscene.

We do not send our men to die
and justify our actions by.
Quoting international laws
nobody body bothers to enforce.

Though when it comes to oil supply
we intervene immediately.
A very different rule applies
and over comes morality.

Freedom is a commodity
which can be bartered bought and sold
and has been by humanity
Forever if the truth be told.

What of the dead the glorious dead
of whom in truth it could be said.
Unknowingly they paid the price
of other peoples avarice.

16-Sep-08

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