Smoke, Mirrors, and Magic - A Modern Poem

in #short7 years ago

Its what they want you to see. They tell you what they want you to hear, they write the history, tell you who your enemy is, and you go and die under the pretence you're fighting for all the right reasons... or are you? Is it true? How do you know? When you ask questuins, the answer is always the same. Spend 600 billion on defense, but use it for offense. Would we be at 12 digits if we were really only defending? Sounds like an active budget. But offense against who? Terrorists of course, theyre the worst of the worst. We must save the children who could die of thirst... our enemy is of a particular religion, Islamic Extremism... yet Muslims, Christians, and Jewish used to all live peacefully in Jerusalem. What's changed? War has changed. Its not open or public, its far from the truth. Its fought secrets and money, and all over news. Its all we see, all we breath, all that consumes us while we eat our food... but we are what we eat. We've become fools.