There is an irony in the fact
that a soldier must kill
to protect what he is killing at home,
By chance or ill-will.
For the army destroys cultures
at home and abroad;
An army is the last thing that
this earth needs any more.

For an army kills an enemy
to protect what they believe is right
But in doing so the army’s needs
outweigh the human rights
To an education, a life
a land of liberty;
To the things he says he defends
in the name of being free.

But the budgets and the expenses
and the monies taken there
to support a military’s actions
in destroying the cultures there,
is exactly what destroys
the cultures they have at home
and in destroying any culture,
an untold loss is known.

Because it is the varied peoples
of this planet I embrace;
It is the varied cultures that
give colour to this place.
It is the individuality
of each person that I see
Too often lost in tormented anger,
war, or misery.

But the cultures destroyed at home
cultures destroyed abroad
A military exists to destroy
not to protect or to free,
And I do not support
The things that are done
in the name of this country.
I do not support the ubiquity
of commercial avarice and greed.

There is no excuse
there is no way to tell
what we are destroying
is our very selves.
And I for one
cannot condone or support the agony
that is being extolled on others
and surreptitiously extolled on me.