We Come In Peace

WE COME IN PEACE

Tearing you to pieces

Dividing you in pieces

Bringing aid piecemeal

Piece time workers

Assemble weapons piece by piece

Pierce holes in steel

Drive rivet, twist ratchet, choose

Your customised techno-hatchet,

To tear those over seas to pieces

Drop bombs to bring you peace

We bring you peace with guns and tanks

The ultimate billion dollar peacemaker

Heart-breaker

Dividing your country piece by piece

Deal breaking with criminal types

Armour piercing ammunition

It's enough to break your hearts

Leave grieving families picking up the pieces

Of their lives

Of their children

Of husbands and wives

Like bloody jigsaw pieces

They cannot reassemble

From the comfort of a bunker

Three thousand miles away

It's all a piece of cake

Every dog of war has his day

Let's whore that minutes silence

While we war an end to violence

And all peace upon your graves

(c) S. Evans, Truro, October 2016