Thursday, 23 June 2011

OPTIONS UNDER FIRE : LIBYA

Author’s notes: Almost a month ago ( At Sat 23rd April ) I published a piece called “North Africa in Crisis: Libya”. Here I present a kind of subjective, selective, distorted, poets eye view of the events from Feb 16th to about 21st April


                                                                                           
Bring Magic Machine and Fated Mortal Men.
Register them all near Pandemonium’s Portal.
Bring Oil and Bring Blood and the Apothecary’s Art.
Allow the Blood Flow, let it Start.
Bring Human Rights declared Universal & True.
Fathi Terbil, let him be recalled, friend.
And let him, when the hubbub’s Done,
In Libya’s annals green, be mentioned.
Bring solidarity and protest in the streets. 
Initiate a tour of duty patriotic, for loves contest.  
And in the virtual Brave new avenue of Babylon,
Play on Ytube the widow’s pain once more.
Let it be emailed and copied and forwarded
And let those at distance sigh and wonder Why.

Aspire to martyrdom and reject, for the next,
This world’s ignorance of paradise’s lost reward.
Recall the day of rage and those whose lives blazed no more.               
Never forget the fire which fell on mourners in Benghazi.
Never forget the fire tumbling as they mourned brethren.
Power is in the hands of the people, that’s what I said.
From here to eternity, from there to anarchy.
Never to leave my darling dressed in Black, green and Red.  

Bring tanks again in the Night.
Let Thanos reign down its death Shelling expected                
Bring abductions on the outskirts of the city
And no news of the departed.                                                                                             
Prevent farmers from seeding, their fields a fallow.
And in Tripoli’s place fresh wine on the table. 
Bring bone smashed and seared broke.
And the crimson washed aroma of scorched, jellied flesh.

Bring death, destruction, agony, and show no pity.
We struggle for Right, for Liberty
For the world, for out country, for our children,
For hope, for the very heart of the City. 
We shall fight them in the Polis and in the suburbs.
We will never surrender we will never leave; with Right’s 
Aid we continue to harass the infidel until at last they yield. 
Kill everyone who shadow like flits. Anyone whose face does not fit.        
And in the virtual and brave new avenues of Babylon,
Let the Orphan’s cry be ignored.

Bring the Battle tanks and daub them with the slogans of Liberation.
Sons and Daughters sing their blood for the soul of a Nation.
Spring the Multiple rocket launcher and let it ripple its barraging effects.  
Let Qatar our brother be first to match word with Mirage jets.                                 
From United Arab Emirates a full horn’s complement came.
More “Fighting Falcons” & Mirage planes – 12 in all named.

Launch Attack Wind and assault with Apache and Exocet missiles
Release Storm Shadow and payload its missiles armed to the enemy’s chest.
Stir The Hornet and sting superior with front line multi- role fighter.
Awake The “Sea Sparrow and anti- ship harpoon missiles”:
Bring the Sea King chopping copter and enlist the Wartog.

Bring them now and let us go together up to Mount Whitney.
Bring mutilation and blinding white light, bring wailing in the night.
Bring mourning and death.
And before the scurry is done its message telegraphed far and wide.
Many will flee, even Mercenaries and hardened paid men of war,
From below the great desert and the near neighbours of Kemet.
Bring a safe distance and let us observe from a far
Let us be numb to it for after all it’s just another bloody war.

Let our allies and friends know that if they will help us kick
Out Ghadaffi then the whole world will live in Peace. Just as Lennon said.
Let our allies know that friendly fire, well the dead are getting higher.
Release from gun barrel Liberty’s freedom’s flower.
Let the African Union know and understand that Revolution and not
Reform is what the blood on our streets whispers beneath our boots.
Strengthen rather our arm in this dread fight 
Rather than prop the arm of the Colonel’s economic might                                  
In the night it comes with its soothing song telling us it won’t be long.        

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