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[title] => CROSSROAD
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[bodytext] => ”The U.S. has alienated the populations of the Middle East and fuelled rage against Americans. I liken the war in Iraq to a hornets’ nest hanging above your door. There are always hornets buzzing around and it’s a question of how you deal with them, whether you come along in the night and spray the nest with insecticide or cut it down. What George Bush did was take a baseball bat and smack it. The hornets are out and all over the place and they are as mad as hell.” David Silverberg, editor of homeland security magazine, HSToday. Please view image before reading verses http://www.geocities.com/kaneix/crossroads.jpg _O/_ Before 9/11. We believed things would only get better Not worse and worse and worse Believing we were on a bandwagon Not following a hearse We grew up believing Things were bound to improve Now with fear all around We feel we’ve skipped from that groove We didn’t evolve to cope With threat as a way of life We thought we’d left that behind All those wars and hate and strife Those who cause us terror What motivates these men? If there is not some source Tell me, WHAT then? It’s easy to call them evil But that produces more heat than light The consequences of their acts ARE evil But is the ONLY response to fight? Of course they must be stopped With every decent means But we must be careful when we do To tell fantasy from dreams Back in the Sixties We saw the need for a better way So many determined voices But it was all but thrown away In the end the movement failed And mere hedonism held sway But we had seen something new Something to help us in this day In the end drugs took the place Of our longing to look and care But even though it failed The HEART of an answer was there Not to blindly follow the corporate schemes Or crude instructions from on high Those of our bone-headed leaders Just ensured that others die This fight will not be won with war and war alone Surely this much is very clear A mad, bone-headed approach Will only bring MORE fear These times require wiser heads Than the normal partisan crew We can’t afford their postures Or policy with votes in view We need connected countries Working together as one We need strong agreement Until this job is done We need the sources Of all this mayhem found We need to heal the wounds The fuel for this killing ground In the end it’s bound to take A deeper insight still And most of all behind the words An honest human will This war won’t be won with killing This war needs a stronger truth If we’re to save our stressed-out souls And the dreams of noble youth We stand in a place between hope and war In a field which others have sowed We stand lonely, empty and in despair It’s time to choose Crossroad [comments] => 2 [counter] => 197 [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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