war drone
striking imposition
quadrants of dispossession
air born storms
marking strategic position
burning what were homes
places life was born
what about storm filled dreams
billed as war's newest form
spitting up spilt blood
vultures in this newest norm
chewing broken bits and bones
crudely destroyed cultures
blowing their bluest horn
fragile life and brutal death
plastered with mortal crud
futile is what it seems
every disputable token speech
immutable speeches
full of lying words
about ownership and peace
at least there is ruthless truth
those honest cluster bombs
such a terrifying fate
festering malice doesn't stop
once caring lives extinguished
villages erupting in flare and flames
a consummation of daring hate
struggle with this infernal tone
those concerned still living
staring at hell and heaven
searching eternal universal sky
fraternal war drones
reciting battle poetry
prattle from up on high
somewhere far above
technology buzzing alone
those searching digital eyes
seeking shelters of stony improvement
inspecting corrupt mud
speaking about blood and bone
squads of dejected convicts
slogging bloodied trenches
quashing reconstituted prison dreams
those tattooed broken ones
pleading for token improvement
what psalms and prayers
can be sung or spoken
which words does god detect
monitoring battle zones
inspecting human movement
kamikaze nuances
zooming war drones
delivering doom via fluent war
flying with detective order
inflicting sordid death  
leaving such a marring stench
inspecting morbid dreams
as ordered men dig
trenches into shallow graves
somewhere far away
in some hallowed hamlet
old folk and widowed women
bent and coldly kneeling
reeling while they weep
prayers beseeching gods
but can gods be trusted
embattled by war drones
now gods are frustrated
chasing sheep and cattle
in war's mortal gambit
why not give life peace
dispel hatred that innocent victims dread
propaganda breaching right and good
towering hateful telling words
should lies excel with their fateful stead
so those sordid powers
bloodied with such horrid reach
muzzling peaceful truth
marshaling invading hordes
ruthlessly delivering
all their disguised lies
everything ignorant humanity has read
speaking needless war   
forced feeding with a formal guise
from castles and political towers
fanatical commanders and their harsh drone war
bitter battles guzzling blood and death
once upon every armoured time
combat in every tactical past
frittered war is waged
pointing spears and sharpened swords
now it's jointly bullets and bombs
supported by buzzing drones instead

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