Wasted Lives

Leaving for school with satchels  and pens

A future concerned with football and friends

No thoughts of a tyranny beyond their dreams

Of despots who've earmarked these lives in their teens

Whose tentacles stretch to country's world wide

Through fanatical mentors with jihad in mind

These impressionable sons with a hunger for truth

Saturated by fallacy,these gullible youths

Prepared to align with  faceless live thieves 

To maim, to kill and gloat at their  deeds 

Now leaving for school with rucksacks and guns

No concerns are left for football and friends