Blood! Blood! Blood! ... and I Thought This is 2012?

It has started again.
They are taking their positions
Digging into their trenches
Cleaning up and arraying their arsenal

It is the same cry all over again
Mewing! Braying! Mooing! Bleating! 
Shouting! Cursing! Abusing! Swearing!
Shouting foul even before the contest begins

They are angling all over again
Like white vampires and black witches
Honing their talons and canines
For the blood-sucking spree

They are scheming early again
Plotting selfishly for the suffering people's death
Even when they are still expecting gains of democracy
Promised in the last elections

Now, it is the war of words all over again
And we foolishly, like sacrificial lambs
Already in tow, taking sides, lining up 
For our own massacre at their selfish altars

Taking up our usual stupid defence;
Religion. Tribe. Class.
Refusing to learn from experience that
Hunger does not know creed nor ethnicity

Idiots. Stupid fools. Block heads!
Those we have become, including me
Cause we have refused to know that
We are the ones that pay with our blood!

They rhetoric has started already
Calling down fire and brimstone
Letting blood from their blood-soaked lips
For an election that isn't due till three years

No more papers nor any news for me
They are already paid to spill blood instead of ink
It is already floating like they expect it in 2015
And I have always thought we are in 2012

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