The Raging War. Poem by Tony Adah

The war raged on
Wasting every life with bombs
The killers hated everything western
And loved every weapon labelled from there
Government intervened.
With frail demoralized forces
Running away
They caught some
And treated them as AWOL
Court martialed them and sent them to prison
While this went on;
The war raged on in the clouds
Terrorists on the prowl
And the generals on the drawing board
Grew more pudgy at the neck with potbellies
They demanded weapons in spurious deals
Still more and oftentimes
The terrorists improvised their own
And the two elephants stampede
In a duel where the verdure
Takes the heat.