Monday, May 30, 2011

Unbelieved? Or Feared?

Unbelieved? Or Feared?

From each war healthy men and women
Return newly ill:
Sickness unknown,
Unbelieved
By VA, doctors,
Government.

Thousands after each war told
It’s all in your head;
 IT does not exist:
What you said happened
Did not happen—
And that’s an order!

No, we would not drop Agent Orange,
Napalm, or any other weapon
On our men.
No, we would not bomb a known
Biological warfare storage center or lab
Upwind of our people.
No, we would not use our soldiers
Or our civilians
In large scale experiments on the sly.

And, no,
We will not believe you
When we are caught in our lie.
We will deny…
And try to discredit you.

© Copyright, Daphne Yvonne Bradshaw, 2000.
All rights reserved.

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