i don't wear a poppy... a poem

i don't wear a poppy 2 remember the dead
i keep them in memory inside my head.

i don't wear a poppy 2 remember the dead
children..., injured, killed by drones
 as they lay in their beds

I don't wear a pop like those grown in the fields
patrolled by solider with guns... until the crop yields.

I don't wear a poppy as they reminds me
of the lifes that are ruined
by opiate toxicity .

I'm not being disrespectful to those whose lifes have been lost,
as they battled in wars... or the very high cost...
I understand the mindset as to what they believed,
that they were fighting for a good cause,
but they were deceived...

when I see a poppy...
it makes me feel sad...
for lifes that were lost
& futures never had...