My Beloved Country By Michelle Dee

A state of emergency has been announced just like those years before Ever since they invaded and started this bloody war. Nazim my lover I lost him, when they blew him up, ten years now without a man just my bloody luck. Tariq's two left to fight, only last week. Shona's face was deathly white, she couldn't even speak. The bombs fall thick and fast the sirens shriek on and on The water pipes are drained dry the food is almost gone My boys are too young to fight but that didn't keep them safe chained to a line of tanks that's where they met their fate.

Death would be a gift for me now I am alone. I pray to the prophet Mohammed to take me for his own. I look through the blackened shutter see the totem pole in the square It appeared over night covered with notes, of hope and despair.

Why do they bomb my beloved country it is the seed that is bad not the fruit. Fight the infidel at Baghdad gate I'd rather die now I know the truth. It is not the western world we fear but our own beloved leader We cried for liberty he fed us lies he killed, maimed and poisoned his own kind.

Now my beloved country coloured gold and red the bodies in the desert stained with the blood he has shed. Pre-Iraqi War 2003 Copyright © Michelle Dee 2004

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