My first anti-war poem

[WindRavenX]

I crapped this out in about 5 minutes.
Yes, the "Cry Havok/And Let slip the dogs of war" reference is kinda lame...
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The Strays of Baghdad


My beloved brothers and sisters—
We are the dogs of war.
Can you hear their chuckles—
Of the Wise Old Men, with their smoke and drinks
and their dead grins
As they send their hunters to the Cities—
to round us up, the strays in the streets
to beat us
to muzzle us
to ship us off to die in the hot wind and sand.
Listen to our Master.
How he’s betrayed us!
Look at his hand, outstretched, promising
Freedom and Paradise—
I will serve him no longer.
I will rip him apart and take back
the blood he has stolen.

You can hear them cry at night,
though sometimes the sandstorms masks it,
the whimpering and howling
the fear reflected in their eyes.
The desire to return to their streets
and be free of the cruelty
that their Master has thrown them to.

A silent snow is falling over my still City.
And I wondered:
Who cried Havoc? Who laughed as my children were rounded up
like strays
and slaughtered
like strays
Who laughed as their beautiful blood
dried in the hot sand
under a foreign sun?

The Cities are quiet now.
The children are gone.
And
are not
coming back.

[Radical Activist]

1. well i liked it better

than that piece of shit movie Sideways! lol I'm just kidding around, but I actually do like the poem.
Thanks for crapping it out and posting.

[WindRavenX]

2. damn you man, Sideway is brilliant

BRILLIANT I say :P

[Radical Activist]

3. How old are you!!!

Seriously, you are too young to like that movie. Its for old fogies dammit! Are you divorced and in a mid-life crisis? I didn't think so! :D

[WindRavenX]

4. You can still relate to it

Even if you aren't in a mid-life crisis- I mean, I enjoyed "About Schmidt" for the same reason- the characters reminded me a lot of my dad. Plus it was wicked funny!

[Radical Activist]

5. whatever

I only brought it up because I like running jokes to death. About Schmidt was odd but touching. I enjoyed it somewhat and it made me depressed.
But not as depressed as hotel rwanda, which was the best movie of the year. Have you seen Waking the Dead with Jennifer Connelly and Billy Crudup?

Anyway, nice poem, seriously. :D

[WindRavenX]

6. I haven't seen Hotel Rwanda or Waking the Dead

Both are on my "to see" list (there's like 30- damn you DU!)