holier than peace

HOLIER THAN PEACE

1.
For walking your child
To hospital
Sanitized barbwire
A community watch
That will shoot you dead
With the word
Mistake
Today was the day
Of rocks and stones
And bullets
You didn’t know
Your child’s needs
Were above all else
Crossfire
And now your child’s dead
For walking to the hospital
For your child’s
Cancer treatment

2.
Freedom fighters
With a religion bent
Fashion items
On a catwalk to death
A bus loaded
With unknowing innocence
A flash of terror
The show is over
The curtain in shreds
Screams to wailing tears
In a after show
Where only blood drips
Success

3.
The eye of the tank
That looks down at you
Warsaw revisited
Ghetto desert
Pseudo neo-nazis
Star of David
On their helmets
Holocaust ghosts wail
From their mass graves
Point accusing fingers
At their children’s children
Inheritors of victimization
Now these grand children
Have become
Inheritors of nazi hate

4.
Old men filled with hate
Clothed in religious piety
Sit in comfort
Sit beyond
The outside poverty
Recruiting
The angry
The vengeful
A generation of alienation
Trained to march
Beyond the check points
Into the arms of deaths
And drag along with them
The innocence.