Fighting For Us Poem by Talile Ali

Fighting for us?
Fighting for us?
Explain to me please
How they are fighting for us

Waging wars on nations way across the sea
Killing people just because they won't do as you please
Following orders coming from the Pentagon
That bankers dictated to them like Attila the Hun

The rich are making money from these wars made of greed
Unfortunately ignoring all of the wars they should be fighting for need
There is no humanitarian actions happening here
Only plundering nations who have mineral wealth quivering in fear

Fighting for us?
Fighting for who?
Explain to me again why
War does the evil for you

Recruiting the poor and impoverished to die for the rich and the cruel
Treating our entire nation as if it's a land full of fools
Faining patriotism as if it's patriotic to kill
Innocent women and children, then they give us the bill

With all of this flag waving my hearts ripped to the core
From all of the hypocrisy we must tread to see all we abhor
Of how we have been duped, dumbed down, liquored and doped
So that we can't react while they steal away all of our dreams and our hopes

Fighting for us?
Fighting for them
Explain this to me again
While I am burying all of my friends!

I'm not no Monopoly game, and I ain't playing RISK
In fact none of us chose to be the fools on this list
For all that we could be, the world has morphed into this
Spillage from the anus of the politicians and their bosses, the rich

So don't expect to see me making any pledges or vows
To kill, to rape, to murder just because I have the know how
And as for all of these actions against these United States
Let's start by jailing the grafting bankers who created these fates

Fighting for us?
Oh fibber please
The only one's you're fighting
Are We, the people, on our knees