Dave Williams

Mr. Bush’s War

Armed fighters wrapped in black head to toe
     impossible to target on this moonless night.

Across the gully soldiers in desert camouflage
     equipped with night-vision glasses and Kevlar vests.

Blowing sand creates ghostly shadows around
     tracer fire coming from both camps.

Sacred mosques provide an eerie backdrop
     for the bloody war being fought

By patriots following orders from men
     driven by greed, revenge and insatiable appetites for power.

A sovereign nation invaded and occupied by troops from faraway lands;
     most share neither the centuries-old faith nor culture of their enemy.

The end of this chapter in history cannot be written
     until truth prevails among the commanders of the occupied and their occupiers.