Protesting a war that affects the inhabitants of the country at war.
The people's who live there are terribly scared of the future, and uncertain of what horror may befall them next.
They have no quarrel with anyone, but they live in the center of a war, so they can't help but get involved.
The war causes them to "[smuggle gasoline before they are of age]".
They are pleading with the higher powers to stop, to "open your high road".
I think the saddest thing is when he says, "some day we will be replaced by the guns of the sons and their fatherless rage". He is scared that the next generation and all generations thereafter will be just like them... fatherless, and full of unnecessary anger.
Protesting a war that affects the inhabitants of the country at war. The people's who live there are terribly scared of the future, and uncertain of what horror may befall them next. They have no quarrel with anyone, but they live in the center of a war, so they can't help but get involved. The war causes them to "[smuggle gasoline before they are of age]". They are pleading with the higher powers to stop, to "open your high road". I think the saddest thing is when he says, "some day we will be replaced by the guns of the sons and their fatherless rage". He is scared that the next generation and all generations thereafter will be just like them... fatherless, and full of unnecessary anger.