IT IS YOUR WAR

They stand in the Breach

One hundred thousand strong

Men and women barely 17 years old

In the cold, the wind, the rain

They stand on someone else's doorstep

On someone else’s lawn

With guns and other ugly weapons of war

Because you sent them there to die

Because you failed to save the peace

Because of your selfishness and greed

They stand there in the Breach

Most have not had their first kiss

Made love for the first time

But they stand there because you said they should

To protect their country 10 million miles away

This is a lie, a big lie

They are there to protect you

As you lay in your warm bed

Wrapped in your warm blanket

With your wife or lover at your side

Secured by the men standing outside your front door

And these young men, these young women

A million miles away

On someone’s doorstep. Not theirs

To protect your interest, not theirs

Where is the peace you speak of?

You have failed again, and again to secure the peace

So you resort to war

You are not standing in the Breach with them

Protecting these young men and women

Who will die when the first shots are fired

Or maimed for life

And you are not there

To comfort them, or shield and protect them

Because you lied to them,

and to all of us about the need for war

This is your war, not our war