Smoke is being washed out of the air and I want to see more
I can see burnt grass and a huge crater in the backyard
Everything beautiful now looks burned and charred
I walk outside to see the yard and I am scared
Walking around the burned yard I feel so unprepared
I am looking for my papa and find his body parts lying everywhere
A burnt skin smell fills the air, his burned skin removed papa’s hair
Smells of my dead papa make me sick to my stomach and I cry
My little sister and I are all alone and cry “Why’d our papa have to die?”
My sister’s body is shaking and she falls to the ground
A bomb has fallen close by and my sister makes no sound
She is not moving, then she cries and moans in pain
I help her up and carry her into the house through the rain
My little sister and I do not know what to do about the war
We are all alone in this empty house and we cry even more
I feel hungry and the food we have left us will not last
The night passes fast; we awaken hungry and eat fast
The city close to us is on fire as black smoke rises into the sky
The beautiful blue sky is full of smoke, clouds sent way up high
We have one friend to phone but the phone is dead
I am afraid to walk far in case I catch a stray bullet in my head
A week has passed and I cry when I think of my papa that died
I miss my mom who would help me when I cried
My love for my mom is so strong that I need to see where she rests
As I go to the grave I see kids with bullet wounds in their chests
I cry when I go into the graveyard to visit my momma’s grave
This is the only symbol of my family that I have left to save
The pieces of papa soon rotted in the heat of the yard
Watching the flies and insects eat my papa’s parts felt hard
Now we have no more school and barely food to eat
Most days we spend playing in the war-torn street
When I grow up I will avenge my papa’s death through war
Someday I will grow big and strong and settle the score
Who Destroyed My Children and Family
I take a picture of the powerful men as they enter the room
Their minds colored with death, faces filled with groom and doom
They have created a war to build democracy in the Middle East
With a lust for killing, on the dead bodies they feast
Telling lies with no compromise they wield their power
Terrified souls waiting overseas hour by hour
Families running scared trying to find a safe place to hide
Listening to the radio hearing how so many have lied
Women and little children are about to die over oil prices
War created devastation building a human rights crisis
Fighting a dictator who wants the euro more than the dollar
working through the UN trying to create his dog collar
The powerful ones calling him an evil man
Smearing his name globally wherever they can
Building terrorism propaganda to scare a nation
Determined to send a country overseas and creating damnation
Telling the world he is a danger to every living soul
Playing the innocent one protecting the world is their role
Lies of weapons of mass destruction cause fear in a nation
Set on a track of high gas prices building financial damnation
Families torn apart treated like old rags thrown away
So many children will die as war fills the days
Pain and suffering fill many hearts torn apart
Wondering why this illegal war was created from the start
Forcing a dictator to fight for his people and land
Invasion to steal his oil is what the government has planned
Afraid of the wealth and power created by the Middle East
Concerned one day Israel may die and be a Middle East feast
Wars created in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine were the plan
Finishing in Afghanistan, cover it up by fighting the terrorism man
Pulling the wool over the eyes of the world while doing war crimes
Thousands killed through war in these evil times
Building a war to kill Muslims forcing Christianity into a fight
Sending the multicultural world into a holy war overnight
People invaded with no place in the world to turn
Watching people die and a country explode and burn
Wars ravaging souls and tearing them apart
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