No military for me,
No tanks or guns,
Or army ranks -
To hell with it all -

No military for me,
No stupid generals
Deciding who lives
Or dies -

No young recruits
Blindly following
Orders to dropp
Bombs on children

No heroes, no trenches,
No waiting wives
Or crying mothers,

Nobody to fight for me
Or my freedoms
Except myself alone -

No deaths to mourn,
No dead children,
No crippled and maimed
Bodies and wasted lives

No military for me,
I don't need any of it,
None of your fucking
Bombs, grenades
And helicopters

None of your nuclear
Weapons to explode
Up someone's ass -

No military for me -
Just keep it,
Shove it and forget it

Wrap it in your flag
And throw it out
The window -

For I'm just fine
Without it.


November 11,2006

Alexander Shaumyan

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/no-military-for-me/