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[2015] Go Team Iron Dome

               
Would you like to be              
a part of something epic?            
Unique?              
           
Come join the practice squad                
Go Team Iron Dome              
           
No one's ever cut              
due to high mortality rate                
           
Not required to speak              
Welcome to play from home
             
               
WANTED: Gazans only need apply              
           
Preferably              
Gazans willing to die            
               
Oh, say can you see              
the rocket's red glare          
in the starry night sky              
right over there?              
       
Crisscrossing the border                
mortar exchanged through the air              
               
Who fired the first shot?              
It matters not        
        
The responsible party?              
Inconsequential!              
           
Any excuse for more shelling from each side                
Retaliation on this battlefield                
always justified                
             
The true nature of the power they wield:              
Operation Human Shield              
           
And there are innocent bystanders aplenty              
in this spectator sport              
               
Running up the score;             
strategy of the game              
Other side of the fence              
---more of the same              
               
A single rocket guarantees retribution              
with excessive force              
               
Excessive force guarantees retribution              
with a hundred rockets              
               
Sock it to'em              
back and forth            
No one ever wins              
           
Back and forth;              
punished      
thousands of civilians              
           
Back and forth              
put into harms way:              
elderly, children, entire families              
who never volunteered to play              
               
You cheered on Hamas          
You shouted,    
Go Team Iron Dome!              
invited bloodshed            
into your very home              
Don't come crying to us              
armchair quarterback hero              
when your neighborhood    
is blown away              
           
Just pray    
that this doesn't go        
into Overtime      
       
Score : Zero to Zero              
Israel versus Hamas              
               
Playing games with human lives              
       
       
             
 
Written by Anarchitect
Published | Edited 9th Nov 2021
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