So it was just lies <br />The need to go to war <br />Intentionally created <br />Secretly debated <br />Subtly misleading <br />Endlessly repeating <br />Lies <br />Lies <br />Lies <br /> <br />Yet somehow we fell for it <br />The need to go to war <br />Presidentially purported <br />Congressionally supported <br />Journalistically followed <br />Publicly swallowed <br />Lies <br />Lies <br />Lies <br /> <br />Lies about the reasons <br />Lies about the treasons <br />Lies with every breath <br />Lies that led to death <br />Over and over <br />And over again <br />Lies <br />Lies <br />Lies <br /> <br />Somewhere the souls of thousands <br />Remember our need to go to war <br />Somewhere the souls of thousands <br />Cry in horror for ever more <br /> <br />They see through our justifications <br />Can no longer be fooled by our lies <br />The charade that we wanted to free them <br />Permanent bases carefully disguised <br /> <br />They know the war’s real reasons <br />Pivotal power from control of black gold <br />Contempt for the views of others <br />The value that each life holds <br /> <br />And they cry out to us now in shock and awe <br />To warn of the terrible price we will pay <br />If we keep swallowing the lies of our leaders <br />Till we join them on judgment day <br /> <br />Yes, somewhere the souls of thousands <br />See the truths we fail to grasp <br />And they hear the rattling bones of the dead <br />From the graveyards of empires past<br /><br />Wayne Guy Butterfield<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nowhere-to-hide/
