The War

1)
It's economic necessity
Of the gravest kind,
The military-industrial
Complex must be fed,
For else prosperity
Will fall into a fatal bind,
Overproduction will ensue
And business will be dead.

2)
The spheres of influence
Must now be closely drawn,
It's not only Iraq
Which is here at stake,
Aggression tolerated will
Bring the war to our lawn
And foreign armies
Will then slice us like a cake.

3)
It really is an East-West
Religious conflict shaping up,
The West's prerogative
Has drained its cup,
This freedom-democratic
Drag is just a foil,
Racists and the Taliban
Germinated in a common soil,
Islamic powers now
New superiorities pretend,
It's sad that word 'equality'
Is difficult for all to comprehend.

Epilogue

Which face is true?
Maybe all three,
I do not know, do you?
But one thing I can surely see,
The Bard, he held the key,
When he stated contemptuously
What fools these mortals be.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz