EGYPT

THE TEARS FLOW FROM THIS SEASONED MAN
NOT FOR EGYPT, NOR ITS PEOPLE
BUT FOR ENTIRE HUMANKIND
LED BY THEIR LEADERS
TO THE BRINK OF EXHAUSTION
TO THE BRINK OF STARVATION
AND OVER THE BRINK OF EMOTIONAL DEVASTATION
pEOPLE ONLY THINK THEY CHOOSE THEIR HEAD OF STATE
ALWAYS ANTICIPATE THEM TO KEEP THEIR WORD
THEY SAY WHAT THE MASSES WANT TO HEAR
AND MAKE IT CLEAR THEY ARE FOR CHANGE
WHICH NEVER COMES
BROKEN PROMISES, THEN BROKEN SPIRITS AND BROKEN BONES
THE RICH STAY RICH
THE POOR STAY POOR
CHANGE IS TEMPORAY
THEN REGRESSES BACK TO WHERE THEY WERE
UNTIL SENTIMENT AGAIN RISES UP
TO DRINK FROM THE CUP
OF FREEDOM

DARWINS ANALYSIS OF THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
CLIMBING AND CLAWING TO THE TOP
THE STRONGEST IN BODY AND MIND
GRAPS THE RIGHS TOO TIGHT
THE STRONGEST OF HEART AND SOUL
SHOULD RAISE TO THE TOP
NOT BY GUNS AND FEAR
BULLETS AND SPEARS
BUT BUY WEAPONS OF WORDS AND POETRY
LOVE AND PEACE
WHICH IS LAUGHED AT
BY THOSE WITH WAR IN THEIR BLOOD
AND FIGHT IN DREAMS
AND GREED IN THEIR AGENDA

I REMEMBER THE FEAR I HAD WHEN I WAS LITTLE..THE WOODEN RADIO ON THE KITCHEN COUNTER WAS TALKING ABOUT THE DEVASTATION THAT THE H BOMB COULD DELIVER IF DROPPED ON AMERICA. THEY DECRIBED THE SKIN PEELING OFF, THE RADIATION, THE BUILDINGS BURTING INTO FLAMES, AND THE ENTIURE POPULATION DYING. I WAS SCARED..SO SCARED THAT I PULLED OUT THE PLUG OF THE RADIO, TO SILNECE IT. AND I STARTED CRYING... PETRIFIED, AND THE SYMBOLIC PULLING OUT THE PLUG, WAS LIKE THE OSTRICH BURYING ITS HEAD IN THE SAND.
SOMEWHERE IN THAT PERIOD OF TIME WAS THE KOREAN WAR, WITH DAILY RADIO REPORTS. MY WALLPAPER IN MY BEDROOM HAD ALL KINDS OF FIGHTER PLANES ON IT ON A BLUE BACKGROUND...WAR PLANES, AND MY WALL PAPER SCARED ME! MY FATHER SHOWED ME PHOTOS HE TOOK IN EUROPE DURING WW2....BUILDINGS COMPLETED DESTROYED.. BLOCK AND BLOCKS OF BOMBED OUT CITIES WITH PEOPLE IN THE STREETS...AND THOSE PHOTOS SCARED ME.
THEN FOR A FEW YEARS WE HAD PEACE. THEN CAME VIET NAM. DAILY NEWS ON TV SHOWED THE HORRORS OF WAR....AND I WAS SCARED I WOULD HAVE TO GO THERE, TO GET SHOT FOR MOBIL OIL AND EXXON, THE MILTARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX...AND THE IMPORTATION OF HEROIN, THE MAIN EXPORT OF SOURTH VIET NAM. BY THIS TIME, I LEARN THAT WAS WAS BIG BUSINESS, AND NOT REALLY FOR MAKING WRONGS...RIGHT!!!!!WATCHING ALL THE SOLDIERS MY AGE COMING BACK IN BODY BAGS SCARED ME!
JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT WE WERE CURED OF FIGHTING, THE VERY EVIL DADDY GEORGE BUSH BECAME PRESIENT ADN BORUGHT US THE FIRST IRAQI WAR.....FILLED WITH LIES AND DEATH....AND THEN HIS EVIL SON, BROUGHT US PART TWOOF THE WAR, WHICH WE ARE STILL SPONSERING.....SUPPOSEDLY TO HELP THE PEOPLE, WHICH IS A LIE, NO ONE RALLY BELIVES ANYMORE...dURING MY LIFE TIME WE HAD ALL THESE WARS, THE HALOCAUST, AND SMALLER WARS HERE AND THEIR....SO WE REALLY HAVENT ACHEIVED PEACE ANYWHERE...FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME. 1948 THE iSRAELI ARAB WAR, ALL THE MANY AFRICAN WARS....COUNTRIES CHANGING THEIR NAME FASTER THAN THEIR BIRTHRATE.....THE HUNGARIANS AND OTHER EASTERN EUROPEANS FOUGHT COMMUNISM AND ARE NOW FREE OF IT...NOW EGYPT IS TRYING TO FEEL ITS OATS...AND GET THEIR FREEDOM. I WISH THEM LUCK...BUT I AM SCARED.