Iraq War Logs

Iraq War Logs covered by AL JAZEERA made me think of a poem I wrote in the wake of the war. Last place i performed this poem was at a NATO parliamentary assembly side event in the Scottish parliament last year. I will bring the issue of the War Logs to the next NATO parliamentary assembly meeting that will take place in Warsaw 12th of November. The way the war logs have been made available via the WikiLeaks network to the general public, the media, the UN, the politicians and the people within the counties suffering from the war crimes uncovered in the war logs will hopefully wake people up about the: 

Horror of War

Headless bodies

        burned flesh

smell of decay

A wedding band

on a slim delicate finger

Shades of memories

a future that can never be

A lonely head in a lush green field

eyes wide open

In the hollow a reflection of

untold love

Mountains of starved children

                            shiny bones

flesh torn off the bodies

Shocked and awed

by the images of mothers

miscarrying their unborn children

Shocked and awed

by the silent fear

countless civilians

dead dead dead

These are images

we should put in a frame

Mount them in our homes

so we never forget;

the true horror of war

and hopefully we will be able to find other solutions in conflict then full fledge war... lets use the war logs to stop future wars - fight war not wars!