War is not a way to solve a problem
My father taught me that
And he should know
He had been through Basra and Iraq
El Alamein Normandy and back
Nobody wins everybody loses
So he said to me
When ships sailed south for Falklands
In search of victory
He shook his head in sorrow
And supped his mug of tea
While Maggie flew the flag abroad
Look here now look at me
And Tony with his tortured face
Looks back upon the war
That stirred the world to anger
And didn’t get us far
But all the factors back and forth
Arguments to build
Just a waste of breath you know
Someone must be killed!
That is why it happened
Cheney Bush and Blair
America was wounded bad
Revenge was in the air
We are powerful we are able
Someone did us wrong
Someone now will pay for it
An old and simple song
Brian Fahy
7 October 2021
Erris Poetry 