Certain Questions on Behalf of Dead Soldiers and Dead Children

whom do soldiers die for?

who teaches them to kill and hate?

it's you and me, sweet friend,
through sixty nine years of bullshit
that made us forget
how to ask questions

some never answer,
must never be questioned
and for the rest - we've been taught
to answer on -
to get jobs, mortgage loans,
dead children out of morgues

who kills all these children?
whom do children die for?
it's you and me, sweet friend
through sixty nine years of cowardice
that made us forget
how to stand between the killers and the killed