And One - Fehlschlag - #6 - Aggressor

Failure

Carefree, like we choose here,

on dark days

Media pressure and greed

are no longer dominant in any way

 

We demand too much

They devour the half-dollar¹

Leaders without style

smell their grave-machinery deal

 

Failure² on command

Girls get out of Israel

cowardly and mentally-challenged

A man-controlled game

 

The First Lady cries in the mirror

She sees what he does not revere

His bombed-to-death love

never retreats from Gaza.

He for whom the bell tolls³

will never understand the shot

and why the life he earned

has to be cleared away by a bombed-to-death love

 

Bullet without target

soaked with grief and loneliness

hits, as he commands,

right in the middle of the west's sense of security

 

Failure on command

Girls get out of Israel

cowardly and mentally-challenged

A man-controlled game

 

The First Lady cries in the mirror

She sees what he does not revere

His bombed-to-death love

never retreats from Gaza.

He for whom the bell tolls

will never understand the shot

and why the life he earned

has to be cleared away by a bombed-to-death love

 

For whom the bell tolls

 

The First Lady cries in the mirror

She sees what he does not revere

His bombed-to-death love

never retreats from Gaza.

He for whom the bell tolls³

will never understand the shot

and why the life he earned

has to be cleared away by a bombed-to-death love

 

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Submitted by  ökostrom on Fri, 11/10/2013 - 18:06

Author's comments:

¹ Literally, thaler, which is a vintage German coin, though some people still use the word to talk about their currency.
² "Fehlschlag" connotes a failure where everything has gone wrong, where something didn't align properly and it resulted in everything turning to ruin.
³Literally, "for whom the hour tolls." He for whom the bell tolls refers to someone who has died. It's possible that And One is referring to Hemmingway's novel about an American soldier fighting in the Spanish Civil War. However, the question, "For whom does the bell toll?" is more generally utilized to express that every death that occurs on earth affects every other human being, as all humans are connected.