Starting 2007 with 3000 dead

SCREAMS by Melida Arredondo

I can hear them.
Can't you?
The screams as she cries
What more can she do?

The pressure on her chest
Just won't go away.
Today, ends the year
Her child's death day.

The wife stands alone
Her kids at her side
Saying "Mom, what's wrong?
Mr. is my Daddy alive?"

The men dressed all nice
One with a collar
Do not explain
all this death for a dollar

Or oil or greed.
They are not here to talk real
They bring only news
That cause the whole family to kneel.

The Father grabs one man
by his uniform in anger
The other hold his arms
To protect the GI from the stranger.

Yet, this Father to him
A stranger is not
The GI looks into his tears
and sees the eyes of his Pop.

The words are not friendly
Yet the pain fills all who love
And lose their own family
Due to bombs from above.

I hear the endless screams
They just won't go away...
At least 3000 are dead
And no cause to celebrate

On this last day of the year
I desire so much more
from my country and neighbors
to unite against senseless war.

Mélida Arredondo, www.peopleunited4peace.org

Remember Lcpl Alexander S. Arredondo, USMC, 08/05/1984 - 08/25/04

"To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men"
- Abe Lincoln