Cold Warrior Shouting toward the rapacious crowd someone with a voice strong and loud you’re on Death’s doorstep, come without delay can’t stand the fear and pain, crucify me another day, I see the world that you despise the countless seeing through dead eyes beneath the skin lies the answer fear is etched on your Master, Slip away to the beginning of time a pleasant dream of mine what could have been but will never be just the thought making me free, Dark shadows come over me, turned the other way what gives you the right to take me away break these terrible chains holding me down my feet are barely touching the ground, Freedom sounds from the chorus of the dead the warning unheeded, condemning us instead lift me upwards away from this dreaded place erase the memory of war without a trace, Smoldering pyres of the burning dead pungent odor overpowering the rest the Unforgiven laugh without remorse seeds of conflict their chosen life course, From the bomb-pocked land, a hidden quagmire my dying, restless soul cries out from afar comfort me with your tears and prayers and give the Warmongers what is rightfully Theirs, Betrayal and lies spewing from their mouths nothing can save them from this tortuous route screams of fallen comrades fill my nightmares their anguished faces telling me that I got to beware, I’m forever dead, yet precariously alive the wind carries memories of my life a message of love that never remained the same and out in the distance I hear them calling my name. I wrote this poem after years of holding it in. I see the same things happening again in Iraq and someone has to speak up and tell it like it is. I'm glad that we have a forum where we can freely express ourselves. There are certain elements in our present federal government that wish to silence our voices. Protest is the purest form of being American and patriotic. I love my country and would not hesitate to give my life for it, but only if there is a clear and present danger. War is never the answer. There has to be a better way of reaching out to people and trying to understand where they are coming from. Peace, ALI
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