ramblings and things
In Consequence
As an ex regular soldier I did as I was told, at the whim of the Politicians.
This poem does not in any way reflect on those brave soldiers of both Nations, who lost their lives or suffered disabilities in doing their duty, following flawed orders.
From one Veteran to another, from UK to USA, brothers in arms, utmost RESPECT.
This poem was inspired by the plight of those refugees stuck in the camps in Europe
You came uninvited to my country
You Brits and you Yanks
Swiftly invading with
Your 'copters, 'planes and tanks.
You deposed our leader
Overturned our way of life
And then you departed leaving
Behind you chaos and strife.
You took it upon yourselves
To continue to interfere
Disrupting stable regimes
Year after year after year.
There is a sea of chaos caused
By your self seeking acts:
The flood of fleeing refugees
Being one of the resulting facts.
You watch us flee in terror,
Risk our lives with people traders
And then you close your borders
Call us unwanted invaders.
We live in your camps, which,
Basic as they are we find
So much more preferable
To the horrors we've left behind.
Our countries disintegration caused
By the barbarians fighting there
While you bury heads in the sand
And show no remorse or care.
You interfered
You won, we lost
And you left us
To meet the cost.
In those camps
We just exist
Our lives near gone
Like early morning mist.
Will your so called democracies
In time learn to accept the blame
For the grief and tragedy you've caused
Supposedly in Democracy's name.
Ever too willing and too hasty
To bully, and to fight
Will you ever learn:
Might is not always right.
The systems you overturned
Killed and maimed far far less
Than those lives lost and disrupted
Because of your resultant mess.
In Consequence