World War III

(with us & ongoing)

World War III has no front-line
no ranks of marching soldiers
designated targets
no assembled juggernauts
from wars past

World War III is new war, subtle, violent
yet ancient, fundamental as testament
bible, torah/talmud, koran

'tis the reaping of a bitter harvest
sown anew by 20th century seeds
invasion, occupation, murder, injustice
the crusading West with it's arsenals
cluster-bombs, tanks, fighter-planes
nuclear-war-head-missiles

the other side
has children
throwing stones
at soldiers

&

dying for it

mother's sons who implode themselves -
no general's orders for their third world revolution
their never-ending mantra “justice for Palestinians”
the West - at it's peril - chooses to ignore

these are mad-men in power, guilty !
for 60 years of cruelty
coldly perpetrated
on a stateless impoverished people

World War III plunges us back
to dark-age 'flat-earth' mediaeval ignorance
demanding deep thought, trenchant reading
near & ancient history

some wish themselves above this
necessary work, this scrutiny

difficult to read fire-and-brimstone texts
crumbling dogmas polished anew
re-interpreted anew
printed askew in the people's media
(owned by billionaires)
preached anew by politicians
in league with fundamental gurus
poisoned with ideology

World War III is run by
'democratically elected'
war criminals ! guilty !
Fundamental Christians ! guilty !
Fundamental Jews ! guilty!
Fundamental Muslims ! guilty!
all guilty ! not listening !
not listening to the heart-beat
of more reasonable souls

World War III means
morally bankrupt politicians
who hold us captive
who've sold their souls
to capital stock & corporation
who feed like vampires on fear and terror
who 'bend' elections based on lies

this brave new world
run by corrupt old men with agendas
whose addled minds can conceive no other than war -
no vision, no future, no thought
not even for their own grand-children

World War III is bigoted old men repeating
ancient fundamentalisms
stuck inside their bibles of black and white
eye-for-an-eye-revenge-genocide
yet still alive
in this 21st century rainbow world
with all its promise

still they bog us down with their lack
their paranoia
their rampant greed
arrogant old men who value nothing
but power and money

we must rid ourselves of their pestilence
they do not deserve the air they breathe
we must vote them out -
if it takes a revolution -

WE MUST THROW THEM OUT

Pamela Sidney 9.7.07