Dulce et Decorum

A rant

 

Dulce et decorum?

 

What of the dead, the glorious dead.

The heroes who of whom it’s said

Laid down their lives in freedoms cause.

The men who died in foreign wars…

 

Whose freedom were they fighting for?

Whose liberty did they restore?

The history books do not make clear.

What right we had to interfere?

 

In other countries home affairs

 or is it true nobody cares

about the plight of the oppressed

in any country East or West.

 

Unless the threaten our supplies.

It seems to me one rule applies.

We are prepared to tolerate

 the tyrants ruling any state.

 

That can supply something we need

 despite their cruelty and greed

We have no right to intervene.

Or double standards are obscene.

 

We do not send our men to die

and justify our actions by.

Quoting international laws

 nobody body bothers to enforce.

 

Though when it comes to oil supply

 we intervene immediately.

A very different rule applies

and over comes morality.

 

Freedom is a commodity

which can be bartered bought and sold

and has been by humanity

Forever if the truth be told.

 

What of the dead the glorious dead

 of whom in truth it could be said.

Unknowingly they paid the price

of other peoples avarice.

 

16-Sep-08

 

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Reviews

[Summer]

I like the meaning it has behind it with war and all and I like your rhyme scheme. Great job, keep it up. =)