SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS, MORALITY AND WE THE PEOPLE

To a more loving and peaceful world for our children
What has happened to our country? this blessed land
Did we put God second and trust in this verdant audacious man?
Is it pride that caused us to think that we are better than others?
And is this so because we possess such munitions of horror?

Why do we believe that we have a monopoly on morality?
Despite our actions that are repugnant to other's society,
We feel such pain when our own are wounded or killed because we care
But for others we have no penitents for their pangs and tear

Are we disillusioned that military might makes us always right?
When we know that all things are always in God's sight,
Subsequent to our 225th birthday we are hated so viciously
And is it due to complacency we blame it on jealousy?

Biological, chemical, WMD, are the reasons we went to war
Nothing found, thousands killed and millions worst than the poor,
Yet "We the People" continue to support this oligarchy's actions
Knowing that retribution brings the certainty of self-destruction

How can "We the People' be so conscious about right and wrong?
Yet condone 140,000 troops occupation because we are strong,
It is time that democracy and economic reform begin at home
And stop squandering our blessings and leave others alone...

by sheriffgali

Author's Comments:
"Napoleon Bonaparte - quest for conquest lead him at one point in his life to say:- 'Conquest, made me what I am, and conquest must maintain me.' Perhaps, our President should say, 'Fear upon the American people made me Presidential and a strong leader, and their continued fear is what will maintain me'."