Elucidating Questions

The irony of “Lest we Forget” digs into my skin like the knife with poisonous stingers inflicting a sting that never escapes

And forget they did forget they did

Rows upon rows of hundreds of thousands of lives lost for no reason

No you see because when they got there they weren’t trying to save anyone

The war was fought for backroom politics as usual

Lest we Forget

But they didn’t know to begin with

Dying for oil

Dying for the West’s disease

Dying for killing someone who killed someone else

State sanctioned mass murder

State sanctioned mass suicide

You want to protect the world from terror?

What terror?

You want to protect the world from communism?

Are you certain a world power just didn’t see the end of its power and destroy anything it could?

Lest we Forget

The horrors of war

And romanticise it and glorify it and demand it

Oops

They did it again.

Rome?

Sparta?

Oh, sorry.

They’re dead.

Because they fought themselves to death