Violent night, gory night. <br />All are doomed to awful plight. <br />See yon trooper whose choices are stark; <br />to kill or be killed like a mad grinning shark. <br />Weep for your children deceased! <br />Weep for your children deceased! <br /> <br />Violent night, gory night. <br />All are damned, in your sight. <br />People scream as white phosphorus glows; <br />burns the skin right through their clothes. <br />Christ the pain will not stop! <br />Christ the pain will not stop! <br /> <br />Violent night, gory night. <br />Truth is scam, when wrong is right. <br />US power is naked and dark; <br />torture reigns in the state of Iraq. <br />Reap perpetual war! <br />Reap perpetual war!<br /><br />David SmithWhite<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/violent-night-1/
