The vote was a silent majority and war continues

with very few Americans having much to say.

A country’s dismay, contracts for oil

bartered with soldiers and steel

A historical blue print for politicians to follow

Their arrogance is our greatest ignorance

leaving the courageous to obey.

The war has reached a decade on the backs of the weary

Fighting has become as meaningless as picking up pennies.

What matters most on this perilous path

Are the men and women protecting forgotten freedom.

Home is distant, a diagnosis

that has bled over from the Vietnam era,

and prescriptions will never make war just a dream

It will be remembered like the images in Abu Ghraib

and forgotten like the atrocities of Walter Reed

Few will remember how a secretary 

didn’t have time to sign memos of mourning

This set the precedent for capricious management. 

War and its politics makes soldiers expendable

mourned by dead presidents and imperialistic ideals