Victor’s March
Among decapitated houses
resembling toothless sculls
we marched in their towns among
tumbled buildings devastated
by smart bombs outsmarting
thoughtful animals
we sang marching paeans
band played freedom songs
to the sarcastically smiling youths
who had implanted deep in their souls
a plan for revenge, youths
who in groups of three or four
planned their defiant act
youths dreaming of
killing us by the thousands
shoe-less youths with grand dreams
the one day in the future jihadists
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