Sunday 15 November 2015

Do our leaders protect us?

To leaders now and in the past:

when you ask us to choose you,
you say you will protect us
and millions believe you.

When you command guns and bombs
to kill people
you say you are protecting us
and millions believe you.
But some of the people
who receive the guns and bombs
have figured out
they can come to the countries
where the guns and bombs came from
and do the same.

When you ask us to choose you,
and to believe that you will protect us
will you tell us
that the guns and bombs you command
have no more chance of stopping
people coming here to bomb us
than they have done so far?

Or will you say,
more guns
more bombs
more guns
more bombs?