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for Shosei and all the others (warning)
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for Shosei and all the others (warning) |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia 
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Bombs burst in the Baghdad air, crescendoeing screaming in fiery red rockets glare, and the children ask as they stare "Is history on earth repeating itself, is this the beginning of another day in Hell?" In Fallujah, someone’s teenage son picks up his loaded gun and aims, determined to meet his Allah, believing he even knows why. And behind a hospital in a Baghdad alley lies an innocent but still headless reminder that no one is safe in this unholy reign of terror. It's just another day of Hell on Earth while here in the pale moonlight tonight, wee little goblins and ghosties will beg for candy. And do you remember what happened just a few short weeks ago when those other innocent children went looking for candy? * |
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Susan Member Ascendant
since 2004-03-27
Posts 5104walking the surreal |
Tis tragic, tis true - and though I opposed our going there, and would like to see us out - why, oh why, will they not embrace their own country men and put aside this religious insanity so they can rebuild their country and find self rule? I know tis too deep to simplify, but I cannot understand the lust for power, the concepts of bigotry, or the need for religious domination - My heart weeps that man cannot live in peace - Susan Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Exactly. My heart is very heavy tonight, it's going to be difficult to open the door to the little neighborhood trick or treaters, yet we must let the children be children, we must let them play while they still can. |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Kacy, it is ironic, tragic, so very sad to see the turmoil, death, so much uncertainty. We have made some very huge sacrifices in the short years of our lives here in America...only about 220 plus years since our independence, which cost many many lives to win freedom. War is never surgical, no matter how surgical we try to make it...because there is always someone out there who simply could care less about the children, their safety... and this is what we are seeing...even as we walk the street on this night, letting ours be what they are...children... I too wish all of the world's children could be safe from harm...think of Africa, all of the dying children there....it makes Baghdad look like a cakewalk...we just are not seeing it... |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Thank you for your reply Barry. I've tried three times already to put Darfur to pen, not to mention the other places on this planet where the innocents die far too young, and brutality seems to know no end. It's just too much, yet I cannot let it all go by me without so much as a comment, a bleeding in write. "Blessed are the children..." I'm getting damn tired of hearing that line when the reality is so very different. |
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ice Member Elite
since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404Pennsylvania |
The human mind is quite bazaar, its thought content varies from culture to culture, something the Bush administration seemingly has no idea of. How the western mind sees the world is very different from those with an eastern bent. Because of this, those in areas whose political thought is driven by religious factions and sects, will never be able to be fully democratized...what this boils down to is that it (the invasion) is seen by them as a new crusade by Christian soldiers and those that side with them from the local population will feel the wrath of the sword....just as the insurgents raise the sword on our soldiers.This is much more complicated than this...I admit Perhaps you should start a thread in the alley on this poems subject, Kacy? I have gotten away from commenting on the poem....I think it is filled with emotion and sadness, just as the subject warrants.....I am glad I read it...and also glad I read the other replies... -------------ice/ford ><> |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
thank you, Ford, for reading and commenting. I posted one with a tangential theme, regarding the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, and have given a link to another aspect of this general theme in the olive branches write. We have to make fundamental changes in the mindset of millions, one generation at a time, one heart at a time I guess, to ever see the dawning light of peace. |
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