Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Operation Neptune Spear (The poem)



The Engines roared of the two helicopters,
With twenty-three SEALs and one CIA
The Black Hawk I, its crew’s chief slid the door open
The wind buffed against the men
On a tall wall overlooking the compound,
Black Hawk one crashed—into the courtyard
But it didn’t infringe the plan,
Thus, only frustration came! They were
Chasing the man called Osama bin Laden:
Ahead of al Qaeda (the Base)…out of
Jalalabad, they had come, beyond
The boarders of Afghanistan, to Pakistan
Pushing Operation Neptune Spear:
The Assault, was to be on a neighborhood house
In the city of Abbottabad: the fugitive’s home.
The plan, ‘Kill the man and anyone who tries
To stop them…’ Not to say, it was said that way,
But that’s how it was read, I do believe…
And good reddens to bad rubbish:
(The latter being my saying of course).

But first came Ahmed al- Kuwaiti, like a caged animal,
With an AK 47 in hand, bullets, and shrapnel
Flew here and there, everywhere:
He was assigned to be bin Laden’s savior, but
That didn’t play out!
And he went down, like a clown, perhaps to Paradise,
More likely to Hell!
Leaving his wife (Mariam) and children behind!
Now it was Bin Laden’s time…

Let me see if I can make this rime:

Holy ...uck, he got shot in the head:
He laid there by the side of his bed, like a dead duck:
His blood and brains seeped out of the side of his skull—
Twitching but dead, convulsing but dead—
No more to be said…!
Then he was shot in the chest—god forbid,
He was deader than dead!

And the SEALs went back to wherever they come
From—and had a good crash, if not laugh, I mean rest:
Ate a hearty breakfast that night: with whiskey
And rum and beer on the side, and had lots of
Milk and cookies in morning for their briefing
While Obama the Great U.S., President, for the day
Had his way; was full of pride thinking what was next
Oh his merry-go-round check list:
How about the 2012: “Campaign?”  I mean,
Presidential elections…?

Note:  Dedicated to the Team of SEALs, who dared the great feat of ‘Operation Neptune Spear’
May 1, 2011 (#3437/10-2-2012)

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