Weapons Sales

Weapons Sales

If you sell the weapons quietly enough,
Packing them up gently, swaddled like babies,
They won’t wake up crossing the ocean,
So that when the people you sell them to
Shake them awake, the weapons will open
Their eyes and believe the men they see
Are the same men who made them.
If only they could know they'd been sold,
They might refuse to launch and fire. Instead, 
They’ll do as their maker says they should.