OUT OF IRAQ NOW!

My Poem:

9/11/04
What I feel in my Heart

I see what I see every day,
All kinds of people acting different ways.
They say we are not for the Red, White and Blue,
It's all because we don't think like you.

I hear in the background the whispers of others,
They think we are doing good for all our brothers.
I fear the hate that they breed,
in my children's future they will bleed.

What happened to the peaceful souls?
Have we forgotten how peace grows?
It's not with the killing of other humans,
But with love all around, looming.

They come and take what is ours away,
And they say it is all OK.
Our jobs, our health care, our freedom are going
While we sit in Iraq and do more killing.

They fight the terror that happened this day
But I do not see it their way.
It is not the ones we kill in this war
it is others that will come back and give us more.

I feel in my heart that we will see the light
Just a question of doing wrong from right.
We all are humans, we all live here together
Just let your love shine and we will be here forever.

   

REM lead singer Michael Stipe appears at a party during Fashion Week Feb. 5, 2006, in New York. A stellar line-up including Stipe, Rufus Wainwright, and Bright Eyes will join leading peace activist Cindy Sheehan for a New York City concert marking the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq on March 20, concert organizers announced Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006. They'll headline the 'Bring 'Em Home Now!' concert. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)  

   

An Iraqi child holds a weapon as Shi'ites take to the streets during a protest in Baghdad's Sad'r city February 22, 2006. A dawn bomb attack wrecked a major Shi'ite Muslim shrine in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Wednesday, sparking street protests and forcing the government to issue an urgent appeal to avert sectarian reprisals. REUTERS/Kareem Raheem    

   

 Iraqi Shi'ites take to the streets during a protest in the city of Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, February 22, 2006. About 2,000 Shi'ite protesters in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf called for revenge after a bombing shattered a sacred Shi'ite shrine, a Reuters witness said. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish    

   

Iraqi Shi'ites chant slogans during a protest in reaction to the Samarra explosion in Baghdad February 22, 2006. A dawn bomb attack wrecked a major Shi'ite Muslim shrine in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Wednesday, sparking protests, some of them violent, and forcing an urgent government appeal to avoid sectarian reprisals. REUTERS/Namir Noor-Eldeen    

 

Iraqis rally at the ruins of a Shrine in Samarra, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006. A large explosion Wednesday heavily damaged the golden dome of one of Iraq's most famous Shiite religious shrines, sending protesters pouring into the streets. It was the third major attack against Shiite targets in as many days. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)    

     

 Pakistani Shiite Muslims burn United States and Israeli flags to condemn the bombing on the Golden Mosque, one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites in the Iraqi city of Samarra, at a rally in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

       

 Iraqi women take part in a protest against the bombing of Samarra's al-Hadi Shi'ite shrine, in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad February 22, 2006. A dawn bomb attack wrecked a major Shi'ite Muslim shrine in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Wednesday, sparking protests, some of them violent, and forcing an urgent government appeal to avoid sectarian reprisals. REUTERS/Muhtaq Muhammad