Homage to a Government
after Philip Larkin
This year we´re sending our troops abroad
to preserve world peace, and this is all right.
They will bring order and prevent killing,
although to achieve this goal some killing
will be necessary, but this is all right
if it is for world peace and happens abroad.
Of course no one wanted this to happen.
Tyrants must be stopped before they threaten
world peace and the evidence was convincing,
although the public took some convincing
that this enemy posed a real threat and
that our worst fears could possibly happen.
So now we are living in a country
that sends soldiers abroad to preserve peace
in a country that is far from here.
In theory that would be all right, but we hear
that fighting goes on with no sign of peace
and we´re just thankful it´s not in our country.
Mike
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