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The violent mind set

We don’t want anything from you,

we just want to enlighten…

You the enemy,

you who have not got the correct ideology.

So we will come upon your land

with arms a plenty,

and soldiers a many,

and liberate you.

For you need liberating.

Your minds are not quite cultured.

So we know what’s best

for you!

And in the image of ourselves,

make yourselves.

And then when our mission is accomplished,

you will, (we trust) ‘thank us’.

And if you do not,

well, we will righteously be perplexed.

For we mean only well,

in our particular religious and political context.

But even if you do not thank us,

we are strong enough,  confident enough to know;

it was all for

your own good.

And it is for your own good!

Of this we are supremely sure

as we come uninvited

upon your shores.

As we come with

arms a plenty,

and soldiers a many,

to liberate you.

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au Created Nov 20, 2006