Flowers

Wrote this sometime last summer after hearing of a young soldiers death...not much older than my own son. I'm not anti-war,although I feel that the war in Iraq was more about revenge than weapons of mass destruction, the fact is, I wanted revenge. I am ready, however, for the war to be over. Too many American and Iraqi soldiers have died; too many civilians. But how does one go about gracefully evacuating a country one has invaded on the pretense of effecting change, when in fact, no change seems to have been effected? 

Flowers

Somewhere flowers are blooming today,

as soldiers are dying in lands far away.

Children are bowing their sweet heads in prayer,

Beseeching their God for their mom or dad’s care.



In that faraway land where the brave soldiers die,

The flowers are burning from bombs in the sky.

While grief stricken moms and dads bow in prayer

Cause their children are dead, from the rockets red glare.