Two Soldiers, by Mike Maggio

there is no evidence
there are no indications

And we were treated like traitors.
We were dismissed:
uninformed citizens
exercising their democratic rights
while the Iraqi mother
the Iraqi child
the Iraqi lover
awaited the dreaded news
that would never come.

Where is the justice in this quagmire?
Where are the weapons
where the open arms
we were promised
you would find?

there is no evidence
there are no indications

So we say to you
with voices still strong
we proclaim
to all who will listen to our clamorous cries
who will hear our shameless words
who will see
what they do not wish to see

there is no evidence
there are no indications

And the time has come
to bring
our brothers and sisters
home