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The Walking Wounded
Contributed by
Iwan
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Tuesday, 9th August 2005 @ 02:17:57 PM in AEST
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And in one second our worlds are torn
Our views are changed from their mistake
We rose today like we’ve always done
And we will lay down in hate
Today it feels like
Everything’s getting the best of us
Families are falling with each passing moment
A coward will walk free with his head held high
And from all around I can see people breaking
One word resounds, and the word is ‘why’
It shouldn’t have to be complex
For those today to take a breath
Please look at this destruction
And tell me what it’s for
Start fighting wars on battlefields
Not within our hearts
Everyone fights until nothing remains
But a picture of a world, gone up in flames
Stop toasting demise, start mourning death
And a thousand eyes wont be crying regret
Copyright ©
Iwan
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2005-08-09 14:17:57]
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Re: The Walking Wounded
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by colinbaker62 on
Tuesday, 9th August 2005 @ 03:39:29 PM AEST
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Hi Iwan, this is slightly abstract but nonetheless very readable and interesting..I live in the UK and have actually experienced being in the Capital when a bomb exploded when the IRA planted one in 1981. I think that the July 05 bombings were terrible acts, but they must not be viewed in abstraction from the wider reality.
I am wondering for example, if you are perhaps overlooking the terrorism that states themselves can unleash on civillian populations in many parts of the globe, often in the naked pursuit for economic gain.
Why is it that someone who blows themself up is conceptualised by Western media as evil, whilst those responsible (politically) for the dropping of enough explosives to blow up a small country on to poor innocent and defensless peoples are viewed by the same media as kind of heroes? The media, often portraying such events as a kind of sporting event or arcade game, with the focus on accuracy etc...?
Colin
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Re: The Walking Wounded
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by bobotheclown on
Tuesday, 9th August 2005 @ 04:17:15 PM AEST
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Hmm good write I especially enjoyed the
last stanza. While I obviously condemn the
London bombings we must also remember
the 100,000+ dead in Iraq, those that died in
9/11 and in the recent London bombings
have been elevated to near sainthood status
while the thousands that have been
slaughtered by Bush and his henchmen have
been forgotten and excused in pursuit of their
own Jihad. So like i said earlier I condemn
the bombings that you wrote about, but are
the terrorists anymore to blame than the U.S.
and British government? I mean what's the
difference between killing Iraqi civilians and
U.S. or British civilians? Two wrongs don't
make a right. We need to extract ourselves
from the holes we have crawled into or
terrorism will never be defeated.
Anyway I seem to have gone on a rant, but
yeah this was a good write.
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Re: The Walking Wounded
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by Iwan on
Tuesday, 9th August 2005 @ 05:28:29 PM AEST
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I know, it is a rather western-centered take on terrorism, but from "Please look..." onwards, it was meant to be directed at both sides. And "their mistake" was never meant to be directed at anyone; that was also meant to be the mistakes that both sides have made.
Thanks for the compliments, I'm sorry it came across as such a dogmatic-one sided poem though, that wasnt my intention. |
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Re: The Walking Wounded
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by Essentially9 on
Tuesday, 9th August 2005 @ 09:43:12 PM AEST
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| powerful ending. i like your take on things and how you wrote them. excellent poem, well worth the read again. |
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Re: The Walking Wounded
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by Fionndruinne on
Wednesday, 10th August 2005 @ 03:36:53 AM AEST
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One would think, at least I would, that in the wake of new attacks, a poem like this would be readily understood and accepted by our intuitive side, and clarification et al be unneeded. It seems it isn't so.
I found this an excellent piece of work, written with real passion. The lines
Start fighting wars on battlefields
Not within our hearts
Stood out for me, as did the last two lines. Well said!
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Re: The Walking Wounded
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by Darkhorse71 on
Sunday, 14th August 2005 @ 10:21:04 PM AEST
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I thought this was an incredibly powerful poem with fingers pointing everywhere. The last stanza says it all. Worth reading several times.
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