Burning Your Flesh

(Poem 3 of 365)

Burning Your Flesh

It simply blows my mind when I hear people,
Parents in particular standing on their precarious steeple,
Proudly proclaim that they will gladly offer up their child
As a potential sacrifice for the advancement of...
The military causes of the United States of America.
I believe these people are insane and should be locked up!

You make a child,
You parent him,
And watch him grow into a young man!
And then you declare that you are proud to sent your child…
Your flesh and your blood…
To fight wars for snake politicians...
To be used like green plastic Army figurines...
To quite possibly die on foreign soil…
Bullet riddled and choking on their own blood...
While fat ass white men in expensive suites smoke their cigars...
In DC bars and other places where they celebrate your loss!

They who send your children to war...
They who create the tension that endanger your children...
They who eat well and sleep better without leaving their comfort...
They orgasm daily as they lather their egos with your children’s blood!
And that is simply fucking crazy!
The end!

RLJ