By your good intentions we've been driven
To spend, ban and destroy for our own good
Now what's left's the world we will be given
While every one of you who's ever stood
Has promised only that you will do more
And blindly we still vote just like we should
But now's the time, we have a line to draw
Your brainwashing and prisons aren't the way
It doesn't work - learn from what's gone before
Stand up and admit your mistakes today
We know the things you told us were not true
For once think of the people not your pay
So please just leave us to do what we'll do
The war on drugs cannot be won by you.
Author notes
The "War on Drugs" and the "War on Terror" are horribly Orwellian concepts that allow governments to spend billions of pounds/dollars on fighting enemies who will never, and can never, be defeated.
I'm not sure whether to call it a Terza Rima or a Modified Sonnet. I used Terza Rima rhyme scheme, but I made sure I had 14 lines of iambic pentameter too,
A contest entry
- Rhymed Form Poetry by Metaphorist.
600 points, ended April 25, 2008, 17 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - ALMOST ANYTHING GOES by VerminVomit.
303 points, ended May 5, 2008, 47 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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pretty good
i like the last part the most
you seem to be a very antidrug person
thanks for entering my contest -
Line 2- "our OWN good" Very interesting and much different from most entries I've been reading. Thanks for entering and best of luck!
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