day SEVEN HUNDRED and THIRTY SIX

 As Seen On T.V.

Small, Muslim children blown to bits by bombs

But our normal, Western lives go on

We read it in newspapers, we see it on T.V.

But to us it means nothing

It doesn't affect you and me

Red hot, hatred

Red hot sun

Roadside I.E.D.'s

To us it doesn't mean a thing

It doesn't affect you and me

Planes dropping bombs, all night, all day

Destroying homes and lives, but what can we say ?

We read it in the papers, we see it on T.V.

But to us, it doesn't mean a thing

It doesn't affect you and me

Young men swearing Jihad

Wanting to die for a cause

But we don't understand it

And we never will because

To us it means nothing

It doesn't affect you or me

It's just something we read in the papers

Or see on T.V.

--Ian Copestick