Today,
I am going to write
your poem,
because I saw you
on Today,
looking dignified
and speaking the words
that many in the world
need to hear
but only a few have
dared you to say,
speaking words of peace
Why didn’t you stay there,
why didn’t you remain
why did you leave
when the going got tough
If you truly believed that
this War is unjust and illegal
why didn’t you stay
and stand in the center of Baghdad
It don’ make no sense,
all dis talk about nuclear
weapons an’ grown men
talkin’ ‘bout wantin’ tuh
go tuh war. Why men
got tuh wanna fight
an’ kill one another
so much. I caint
figga it out. It
don’ make no sense.
Walking,
here you come
walking
walking in groups of
ten,
a hundred,
thousands,
ten thousand
some of you
are walking on
two legs, no thicker than a man’s finger
or one leg supported by branches