home Poem List next poem Generals Cast Away Generals failed to create sound order Letting looters destroy ancient archives Political correctness their border Forgetting insight to save their own lives Officers watched looters walk by with things Knowing information was just destroyed If soldiers distinguished secrets from rings It is not clear from actions they employed Perhaps they thought fear would make honest men Having destroyed armor and their big guns Weakness of will watched again and again As complexes were robbed by Iraqi sons Writings of floods predating our bibles Proof perhaps of fraud's active eclectics Become threatened by theft of old tables Pressed into clay by passing heretics Those who dared pen history and its truth To spite approaching sceptres of control Under the wings of the warrior and sleuth Hunting who would contest what they extol Relics that have survived thousands of years Were stolen and marred under watching eyes Of soldier controlled political fears Hiding behind ignorance on the rise (C)ERA 05:07 PM 5/14/03