BODIES ON MY TV (And yes this is "obtuse" as well !.!.!. lol I've never been called obtuse and I'm dealing with it slowly but surely)
Pictures of torture victims and war,
National tragedies and bodies
Flash across my TV screen and I sit
Numbed to it because its miles away!.
Victims in the thousands cry, but to whom!?
I'm not their savior and I can't help!.
I am not going to a foreign country to help
Hand out food!. I won't join or stop a war!.
I'm not going anywhere to trip over bodies!.
I need to be in my living room sitting!.
I enjoy my comfort far away!.
There's got to be somebody else, but who!?
I could pray, but to whom!?
And would that even help!?
And our own country tries to stop suffering with war!.
We waste our own bodies!.
So, comfortably here I sit,
Easily miles and miles away!.
I want someone to keep this crap far away!.
Keep the enemy at bay, but who
Is the enemy – and CNN is of no help!.
The news stations are themselves at war!.
A war of sensationalism – who can show the most bodies!?
Until it's in my backyard, I'll sit!.
The president sits, so why can't I sit!?
Apparently the war is being fought there so it stays away!.
We're fighting this horrible enemy, but whom!?
Maybe a national drink off would help!.
Or instead of a terrorism war, a television war!.
But no more television may produce more dead bodies!.
I don't look outside my window and see bodies –
Yet!. So right here I'm going to sit!.
I'll watch TV and see destruction of places far away!.
Leave it up to – I don't know who!.
Maybe Oprah can help!.
And hopefully no one I know will have to go to war!.
We watch war on TV, bodies
Pile up!. We sit and do nothing, it's too far away!.
Who can help!?
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