Poem: Politicians and their Missions
Politicians and their Missions
Every people, every nation
Every settlement on Earth
Is a source of great creation
Which gives little children birth
Once I met a new-born baby
Lying bleeding on her side
Hit by some machine-gun maybe
And eventually she died
I remembered how my brother
Took his weapons to the war
Where they shot at one another
So I saw him never more
In the meantime politicians
Sit and talk and laugh and eat
For in favor of their missions
Are their subjects on their feet
In the ashes, in the embers
Scores of homeless people lie
Burn their eyes and burn their members
And eventually they die
That is democratic mission
As the lords of war might say
Since for any politician
Tortures are so far away
Let’s stop testing who is tougher
Let’s rebuild what’s been destroyed
Let’s not make each other suffer
Life is here to be enjoyed
Make your rifle grow a flower
And forget what it was for
There’s much more to life than power
There’s much more to life than war
Don’t obey the politicians
We’re not humans to obey
Don’t fulfill the selfish missions
From Iraq and USA
Don’t obey a politician
Who wants war we must avoid
Peace and life shall be our mission
Life is here to be enjoyed
