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No Quarter by ~Everthesame807:iconEverthesame807:

Categories Literature > Poetry > Sociopolitical > Open


As I stagger up the hillside
The sun monitors in such an empty gaze
In the most empty of regions
I find myself out on the run
Through the strangest of mazes
I've always come to confide
In the imposing ball of helium and hydrogen
As I march on, again and again

All the battles have been fought
All of the wars have been decided
Through all the conclusion found
Comes the delusion that moves to astound
I'm on and on and on all over again
The occupation here is on deprived of a plan

As orbs ricochet throughout the sky
Like a pinball in a machine
Bouncing off the flipper cloud
The ground screams out loud
As down comes the ball of gasoline
Prompting all life to lie
About its existence now irrelevent
In this world, what evil has been sent

The tanks roll over the islands of imagination
The missiles rain and giving the lands a sensation
Of seasoned, but shameful defeat
We take this video, we place it on repeat
The screams fade away into the wood work
As the minds of men slowly go berserk

The shadows cloud out the light
Lighting their own flames of darkness
I've come to find damnation
Whenever I turn on the television
Ah, but the brilliance of November bliss
What does it matter if any of this is right
When all of this bloodshed and childish antics
Is merely dismissed for thought, because its all just politics

The world will declare no quarter
Through the tainting of the water
The decimation of all the sacred land
Yet some how, our dignity still tries to stand
As we fire shots into the dark
Combating every evil shadow's vile spark

How many families displaced
Fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters
Dead without a second thought
As the cultures become caught
In the clutches of the spiteful tongue of others
This repulsive taste
Within the walls of my mouth
Sends my entire mood directly south

No quarter
We'll just behead the future
No quarter
We'll leave your bodies scattered in the pasture
No quarter
Mercy is an overrated piece of war
©2009 ~Everthesame807
:iconeverthesame807:

Author's Comments

Anyone who knows much about my politics knows I'm a devout noninterventionalist. I do not believe in war as anymore than an absolute last resort to our problems, anything sooner and certainly anything preemptive, is a blueprint for disaster. War is, although a necessary evil at times, is still problematic and primitive.

This piece reflects this to an extent.

NOTE: Noninterventionalism is certainly not liberal. If it were, William Jefferson Clinton wouldn't have sprinkled missiles in the eastern hemisphere while joining the crusades of NATO. It is traditionally conservative and libertarian. The REAL right wing.

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~HuronandToto Jun 29, 2009, 4:14:24 PM
I don't like war either, but I do know when I think it is necessary: defending your nation. Unfortunately, the thing with war is: there is no neutral, because sooner or later, you usually get drawn in, caught between two sides. It's kind of like the Gundam series: innocent people are always dragged in. However, I do have respect for the military and I recognize that it isn't their fault when a government has an agenda that it forces on them. Good piece, by the way, and I love the imagery. One question: this line "As the minds of men slowly go bezerk." Did you mean "berserk"?

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"Why won't you let anyone in?" "Because as nice as these moments are, they're evil when they're gone."--from "Ultra Violet"
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~Everthesame807 Jun 30, 2009, 1:27:32 PM
Agreed. I hold nothing against the military in my war views, which is why I typically don't associate with the mainstream pacifist crowd that commonly attack our soldiers alongside war.

With the neutral thing, I think the ability to remain neutral and strong is underestimated in American society. We've just never known it, because we've always had the existence of the military-industrial complex. Unfortunately, nobody was listening when Dwight Eisenhower warned us in his farewell address of this military-industrial complex.

O_O Holy crap! I typoed! Shhh...you didn't see a thing! : P (thanks for pointing that out :D)
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~HuronandToto Jun 30, 2009, 6:15:44 PM
I agree with you on the military industrial complex. Thank you G.W. is all I gotta say. Man, I actually shoulda listened to the libs on that one.

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"Why won't you let anyone in?" "Because as nice as these moments are, they're evil when they're gone."--from "Ultra Violet"
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~Everthesame807 Jul 3, 2009, 11:42:31 AM
The thing about the liberals though is they weren't anti-war because they are truly anti-war. They are anti-Iraq/Afghanistan because it wasn't THEIR war. Just like the Republicans don't have a problem with big government as long as its THEIR big government.

The Republicrats are a joke. And the election involving Jorack McBama was a joke. The two-party system is a total failure. The multi-party system needs to return.
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~HuronandToto Jul 4, 2009, 7:31:57 AM
Yes, I agree with you, but I think we should have a law against Communist/Socialist/any ism like that parties.

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"Why won't you let anyone in?" "Because as nice as these moments are, they're evil when they're gone."--from "Ultra Violet"
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~Everthesame807 Jul 7, 2009, 11:55:55 AM
I don't think so. We set precedents there that will become extremely problematic in the future.

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself."
-Thomas Paine

If we define a party or ideology as outlawed in our nation, it would create a set of precedents that can be twisted into different meanings that could eventually catch us.

How else can liberals twist the United States Constitution, a document written to protect US from Fedzilla, to actually work against us?

Let communists have their parties here. If our country is smart enough, they'll never become credible. There we will combat without sacrificing liberty.
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~HuronandToto Jul 7, 2009, 5:05:48 PM
I know that outlawing that would work against us, but I am tired of putting up with that crap, but such is this imperfect world.

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"Why won't you let anyone in?" "Because as nice as these moments are, they're evil when they're gone."--from "Ultra Violet"
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