SOWING AND REAPING - PART 1 OF 4

To a "precarious "  world  in a most "precarious predicament"!
For eight years I was second in command
I saw the world and all of its riches and land,
My superior and I set out specific and set goals
That only, "our ideology" and authority, shall matter in this world

We ingratiated ourselves with the Contras and others in South America
And embraced our "buddy" in that mid-east country so far,
We were disenchanted with our "buddy's" neighbor for our hostages
Oh! happy we were, when he gassed and maimed them into ancient bondage

1988 when he cooked with dischlordiethyl sulfide the kurdish population
How silly was some congressional outcry for United Nations Sanctions,
I became commander and saw our ingratiation was nothing but myopia
Our pernicious folly surely created two great monsters

Since we are never wrong and now I was in charge
I blasted Panama and captured one monster, in a military barrage,
Then came this x-buddy with military might, massed the kuwaiti border
I did not warn him that he should not cross over

For this warning would surely have prevented his massive occupation
And cheated me out of my desires for inflicting destruction,
So I allowed him to invade and carry out his perpetration
Thus gratifying my gift and justifying my military intervention...
 

by sheriffgali

Author's Comments:
"Many books were written about our 41st President. In 2002, I condensed his life from 1981 as Vice President to the present day. Poetry can be very revealing.[A FANATIC IS ONE WHO CAN'T CHANGE HIS MIND AND WON'T CHANGE THE SUBJECT. Sir. Winston S. Churchill] It is very important for people to know that I am not attempting to be despiteous to a family of 'pedigree' and 'appanage', for I wish that that was the case. But it is far more serious than that. For me poetry is the expression of one's feelings, in some cases fiction and in others, like this one, facts, actual facts. So please take this four part journey with me and see how far down the road of perdition we are, due to "malapropos" [a deceitful means to a deceitful end], egregious, pernicious machinations from the people we empower. To the readers of this four part journey ,some who are not so informed, it may go over their heads, then again, there would be those who are well informed, but it will anger them because the truth hurts, then there would be the third group, the ones Shakespeare spoke to; 'To Thine ownself be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou then canst be false to anyman.' To this group, this four part series would be like lightning in the mid-night sky. Lord help us all. This was written at the end of 2002."