Here is a poem I found.
ccharles000
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Fri May-23-08 06:10 AM
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Take up the Dubya's Burden Send forth young men to bleed Go bind your sons to endless war To serve your leader's need To wait in anxious worry Who this week has him riled? His new found mortal enemy Half devil and half child
Take up the Dubya's burden In impotence abide To use the threat of terror To satisfy his pride Speech after speech so simple An hundred times made plain To seek more oil profits To make more corporate gain
Take up the Dubya's burden The savage wars of peace Ignore homegrown famine And bid poor complaints cease And when your goal is nearest The end of terror sought Go find another enemy And bring peace hopes to naught
Take up the Dubya's burden No tawdry rule of kings But surveillance of people Invade their private things The homes you should not enter The rights you should not tread Let Ashcroft do his bidding Let people live with dread
Take up the Dubya's burden And reap his old reward The blame of those who suffer An economy scarred The cry of jobless millions And those who demand "rights" Why brought ye us more bondage And turned our land to night?
Take up the Dubya's burden Ye dare not stoop to less Nor call too loud on freedom Which governments detest By all ye cry or whisper By all ye leave or do The silent sullen peoples Shall weigh your G-d's and you
Take up the Dubya's burden Have done with peaceful days Before you deal with one war Let two more take its place Come now, prove Dubya's manhood Through troubled, war-plagued years Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom The judgment of your peers!
This is a truly sad piece of writing.
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