In Memorandum

Tell me again
what these wars were for,
what the battle smoke
and noise
and blood
and death
and corpses in the field,
what the sound of jets flying in the air,
the explosions
the drones
the bombs
was supposed to buy us,
what the injured survivors
the lives we tangled up
in our shock and awe,
the shattered look
on the faces of everybody
who was touched
was supposed to accomplish,
and why,
and why,
and why
we scream for more.