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Because I Want Peace By Claribel Alegria
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Because I want peace And not war Because I don’t want to see Hungry children Squalid women Men whose tongues Are silenced I have to keep on fighting. Because there are clandestine Cemeteries And Squadrons of Death Drug-crazed killers Who torture Who maim Who assassinate I want to keep on fighting. Because on the peak Of Guazapa My brothers peer out From their bunkers At three battalions Trained in Carolina And Georgia I have to keep on fighting. Because from Huey Helicopters Expert pilots Wipe out villages With napalm Poison the rivers And burn the crops That feed the people I want to keep on fighting. Because there are liberated Territories Where people Learn how to read And the sick are cured And the fruits of the soil Belong to all I have to keep on fighting. Because I want peace And not war.
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