What men are capable of.
Never again. Sweet words that lasted but a few moment in time.
What men are capable of.
What legacy will we leave?
I hope more then we were
the one’s who stood by and
allow the Wars and disease
to deteriorate the dreams
of our children.
I stood by a river.
Dead bodies flowing in the current of the river.
Killed for sake of religion.
As I pull the bodies out.
I was sicken by the deeds of men.
I felt so cold.
Are the Angels watching?
Waiting with open arms for the innocent.
Who is crying for them?
No-one is speaking out for the people in the way
of the war machine and violence.
Men who speak of tales of fable and bogey men.
The profiteer and big business using lobbyist
to keep war a-coming.
Need to be identify and put out of business.
Using young men and woman to fight for oil and land.
Life is simple.
Treat people how you desire to be treated.
Religion is personal.
I don’t believe the common man/woman would desire War
before peace talks.
I never met a woman/man who desire to died.
Never met a Mother/Father who wanted their child
to died in War.
Profiteer and big business hide behind false words and tales of ghosts
to have the ability to get richer.
What men are capable of.
The great men of peace are rarely heard today.
Block out by stories of ghosts and demons of leaders with
pocket full of lobbyist money.
Cities and towns are now War grounds.
No safe place for the innocence.
Can we stop the terror and violence?
I stack the bodies of the innocent.
Just old men and woman.
I pray to the Spirit of life and Death.
Take care of these poor people.
Please give them peace with you.
When the world is past the healing point.
Too late for the sheep being led to slaughter.
Who will cry out then?
Too late for the babies being born to chaos and War.
Their dreams and hope.
Cut-off by the hunger and greed of War.
Coyote
6 August 2009
http://www.ajzanier.com.ar/hiroshima.htm
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May your tribe increase
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Thank you for reading. Time for world to follow the leaders of peace. We could use a Martin Luther King Jr, Kahil Gibran and Gandi in places where we could change the direction of our world.
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So important to say it like it is/was! Thanks John.
I’ve been to Vietnam and seen the effects of Agent Orange… and I have been the therapist for the returning soldiers (the other victims) and their families.
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I have met WW1 and WW2 Soldiers. Their faces change when they speak of war. They tell you things that they wanted hidden away. But sometimes we can’t. Thank you for reading and the comment.
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heartbreaking and wrenching, but we must never forget the horrors of war, seems we must live them over and over.
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Some memories effect even the hard in heart and mind. Thank you for reading.
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And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart, they are the ones we never forget.
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You are correct. Thank you for the comment.
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Very nice poem …
Image is at number one, I see it as a mass grave, but I saw a shadow of a woman shine and stand in the middle
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The picture are from the death camps from WW2. I visit the camps in Germany and Poland. It is sad we have not learn. War fixes no problems. No winner in war. One people and one planet.
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That’s right that the war would cause grief, there should not be war in the planet.
thanks for the explanation
sign of peace; calligraphy
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I agree. War leave no winners.
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Very beautiful and emotion evoking.
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Thank you for reading. I volunteers for all extra missions. This story was when the Peace keeping force was in Bosnian.
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Blessings to your beautiful soul. I’m thankful you write here.
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