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[bodytext] => I knew as soon as I stepped on their land This is wrong Why am I here? I don’t understand Such a diamond blue sky And a heat to kill an alien culture where I came to die In the morning Were the times I loved the best The quiet air The gentle sky dawning Before anyone screams I gaze so long At that childlike sky the gentle color of my dreams And too soon the nightmare starts Wake up!!! (I only wish I could have slept) Another gentle day torn in pieces A grain of sand lies in my cup Me and my band of brothers crowd into our Humvee We're wired up and nervy All Iraqis seen as “others” Seen not human as us The others call them names But my folks taught me different “Son, we're ALL on the same bus” So many don’t want us here We pass them day by day They may smile or walk by Then at night comes the fear Each second may be our last (And I begin to wish it was) As nerves are frayed to breaking And I think only of the past Lying awake I see each face And remember every word Another world away Now lost without a trace Each day here is a nightmare There was no sense in this We replaced fear with chaos Locked inside myself I stare I am surrounded by horror I can no longer face Just hate, fear and dying My heart a pit of sorrow With no way out I just can’t take this any more I look down at my rifle So sad, so lost... I see my only door O/ At least 21 US military personnel involved in the Iraq war have committed suicide since the conflict began last March, the Pentagon revealed. BBC Wednesday, 14 January, 2004 [comments] => 1 [counter] => 278 [topic] => 41 [informant] => Steeleyes [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => political )
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