"A Peacekeepers Fate"

Too many feelings, too many words!
Too many memories, that all go unheard!

Your blood starts to boil, your head starts to ache!
The pressure inside you, wants you to break!

To feel and to see, it alters your mood!
It's hard to explain, a child with no food!

The bodies, the pain, the incredible hate!
Being thrown in the middle, is the Peacekeepers fate!

The goals are holistic, so grandeur and plain.
To make people love, but it drives them insane!

The beginning is easy, we listen and learn.
Understanding is hard, as the children are spurned!

The harder we try to make ourselves heard!
The more things become obtrusively absurd!

So we change our direction to a mediators role.
Preventing the bloodshed from taking it's toll!

Our candles are burning at both ends and it seems,
To create an environment of progress and dreams!

The feelings of pride for all those who dared!
Cannot be explained when a death has been spared!

Our jobs are not easy, no credit, no fame!
Just feeling self worth for all those who came!

Our roles are intrinsic to the people we see.
Our lives have been altered to reflect you and me!

Would I do it again if the need did arise?
I'm a Peacekeeper now...It comes from inside!

Dan Jones
CIVPOL 2000
Kosovo