<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381651" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Babe's Requiem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wars are fought by babes with a gun, <br>fought by them but never won.<br>Taught to think that war is just, <br>to preserve freedom is a must.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So off they march to foreign lands<br>and soon they're mired with bloody hands, <br>praying that what they're doing is right, <br>shooting and killing both day and night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While back at home we continue to buy<br>and let the flags continue to fly.<br>Reading the news, watching the scenes<br>not understanding, it only demeans</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What human life is all about.<br>Why babes were born and how they've turned out.<br>Pointing the finger at imaginary foes, <br>forgetting to point at the white shirts of those</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who plan these wars way in advance.<br>How do our babes even stand a chance? <br>They play with guns from the age of three.<br>Can't their parents wake up and see? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In foreign lands the parents do weep<br>watching in horror as their babes go to sleep, <br>never to awaken and breathe in again<br>the air in Iraq or Afghanistan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How is it the babes of those in power<br>are not involved? In fact they do cower, <br>hiding behind the white shirts that lead, <br>never having to fear they might bleed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wars are not games that big people play.<br>The guns are given to the babes everyday.<br>No lullabies will be sung for them.<br>The song for these babes is a requiem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edwina+Reizer">Edwina Reizer</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381651" data-title="A Babe's Requiem de Edwina Reizer" data-description="Wars are fought by babes with a gun, fought by them but never won. Taught to think that war is just, to preserve freedom is a must. So off they march to foreign lands and soon they're mired with bloody hands, praying that what they're doing is..."></div> </div> </div>

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