My brother had died
My brother had died.
A Poem by Coyote Poetry
Old age led me to hard decisions.
To laugh or cry?
To run or fight?
To kill or let live?
I’m led by my heart. I’m tire of war.
War is costly for the country in taxes and the lives of young men and woman.
The peaceful man want little.
Some land, work and a safe place to live.
I’m a old man now.
I hold vigil for mother’s son and daughters fighting for ruthless and cold leaders.
They can send bombs with no conscious to areas of population without concern for
the woman and children running from war.
I’m left vacant and disillusion by leaders deciding who is right or wrong on other continents.
How can leaders who allowed a great land to fall apart?
50 million on welfare. No jobs and 17 trillion in debt decide the future of Syria?
Our multimillionaire leaders want confusion and purpose.
I hope sending Soldiers into a internal conflict isn’t one of them.
I’m led by my heart. I’m in search of blind hope and old dreams.
Nobodies buy the lies of the leaders in Washington D.C.
After 5,000 years of war.
Too many woman and children had weep for men and woman lost to war.
I lay with the wild flowers wondering?
Was their death worthwhile?I hear whispering in the wind.
“Remember me when I’m gone.”
One of my brother soldiers lay in a peaceful grave.
A gift of a daughter’s flowers resting on his stone.
I drank my friend favorite beer. I remember his laughter.
His strong voice.
He died like so many brave United State men and woman.
Brothers in arms will stand together in peace and war time.
Pray for peace. Pray for common sense.
Pray for leaders with wisdom. History repeat itself for blind and incompetence leaders.
I leave the three cans of Miller beer on my good friend grave.
I salute him and leave with a solemn heart.
Today I watch my world led by darkness and corruption.
Leader who do things without reason and purpose.
USA isn’t the policy police of the world.
It is time to fix our house. USA need some TLC.
Coyote
really sad. and really sad stats. so: stop military interventions, put focus on diplomatic negotiations; Assad in Syria offers to give his chemical weapons under international control. so no reason to act with army there – send him to Den Haag instead – international court for war criminals …
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I agree. Allow the United Nation to do their job. Thank you for reading and the comment.
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I’ve set a link to you at
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Thank you.
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I feel your grief, John, and share your wish for greater humanity.
The popular “reality” show Big Brother uses the term “storming and forming” to describe the way trivial arguments lead on to people forming genuine relationships, and perhaps even wars, that can lead people to visit and develop a greater understanding of other nations and cultures (consider Vietnam as a possible example?) can be a part of this process, as our world grows ever more inter connected.
We do need to find better ways to make this happen, and I hope that social media such as WordPress may be a means through which real people, wherever they are can come to know each other better, peacefully and without having to attack and kill each other first!
So my request regarding the Syrian situation is that the US should use its resources to find the names of the people who died, lend assistance to the surviving victims and help clean up the land poisoned by chemical weapons. Perhaps Obama, Assad and even Putin can be persuaded to see the sense in that approach!
I’m just another unemployed poet and blogger whose opinion means little, but that’s why my most recent poem is called “I want to make you all cry”.
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eternally grateful for such sacrifice
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Thank you Paul for reading and the comment.
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No words. Thank you for the post. Love & gratitude to those who serve, never ending~
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Thank you for reading and the comment.
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Thank you for writing this, it breaks my heart to see the way this government works; there is so much more going on than most people realize, we are all so busy struggling to pay our monthly bills while the government goes on unchecked; executive orders seem to be the way things go now… I pray we don’t go into Syria, we are already spread so thin, the Military budget has been cut so much and here we are trying to rule the world; my cousin is in Afghanistan for the fifth time and I worry so much, he has 2 young children under 6 years old and his wife is now pregnant with twins; every single soldier has a story but the government seems to think of them as numbers, not people… look at Benghazi, most people don’t even know what I’m talking about if I bring up Benghazi and it’ll be a year this coming Wednesday since 4 Americans were killed and all we hear from our government is, as Hillary Clinton said, “what difference does it make?”.
I agree that it’s horrible that people are being slaughtered in Syria but why is it our place to straighten things out over there? John Kerry says that Syria is worse than what happened in Benghazi, it scares me when a government official thinks nothing of those 4 Americans who could have been saved if ‘somebody’ didn’t give the order to ‘Stand Down’ that night in Benghazi. I don’t want to wind up getting in trouble for exercising my right that guarantees me free speech so I try to be very careful about what I say on the internet, but we all know that there is only one person who is allowed to give the Stand Down order, and that person is the Commander In Chief.
God Bless you and your ‘brother’ John, and God Bless us all because we need it in this scary world we live in.
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We have poor leadership. Benghazi show the world what kind of leaders we have. I pray for better days.
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John, these are fine words of wisdom, it is hard to know what to do when we see the suffering and are outraged in regard to Syria. You are right, we can’t fix Syria or force democracy on anyone, particularly ancient cultures. Thank you for this wonderful text.
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Thank you for reading and the comment. We can’t forget the soldiers who gave it all and we must ensure their families are took care of.
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Very nice tribute, sir… the three cans of Miller especially… Our vets need TLC, seen or unseen wounds tended to… but not under this Administration. With Obummer’s last cap, soon, starting pay for those putting their lives on the line will not be worth it when compared to being on welfare… Let’s bring on TLC.
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A good government take care of their soldiers. Thank you for reading and the comment.
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Amen.
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Thank you for reading and the comment. I do appreciate.
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I think it’s up to all of us to remember that those who have given their lives to fight for our country (whether we agree or disagree with the military campaigns in which they died) are warrior souls who actively chose to fight. I honor them and thank you for remembering them!
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Thank you for reading and the comment. We must take care of the Soldiers. The responsibility of a good government.
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http://apps.washingtonpost.com/national/fallen/ See all casualties and faces here. Close to 6,800 now dead. 60,000 returning amputees and over 400,000 casualties chronic physical and mental illness and injuries for rest of life.
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Thank you for the new figures. I look up on the internet this morning. These wars leave us with great lost. Too many good people had died. I pray they fought and died for a good reasons. This President want more blood. We can’t fix Syria. Can’t teach old countries to be like the USA. We do tried to get along in the USA.
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