Life is Deep

Where was the warning that life was so deep?
even on the TV screen the future looks bleak.
experience is necessary to relate to my musings
perhaps journey to lands where people are losing
life – innocence is but an excuse to remain
conditions so poor that slavery looks humane
we hide behind the excuses so many, weak
as if we are not guilty for thousands do weep
so long as they are not british or american we say
nothing you can do to stop their passing away
serving the ‘nation’ involves murder it seems
as the death of one soldier justifies the means
to remain as oppressors for as long as it takes
the worlds cradle of civilisation lays to waste
precision missile – shelter with families of all
shadows of human bodies remain on the walls