“You are gone and I’m here”

You are gone and I’m here.

No winner in war. Just shadows of people lost too soon.

(A photo found unclaimed on Writer’s cafe. It was famous once. Don’t need

words to express the sadness.)

You are gone and I’m here

War, violence and terror.

Who win in these wars?

Loud and powerful men watch from a distance. Announcer threats of war condemning young men and woman to fights and die.

I stood with family members and children by strong men graves. They won’t whisper their song no-more. Children will learn to understand. You are gone and I’m here. I need you now and I love you dear.

Taps is played on the bugle in the winter snow at Arlington National Cemetery (Photo credit: Beverly & Pack)

My brother Soldier and friend is gone. He left his imprint on my life. His smile and laughter is missed. His baby girls are so tall and beautiful. He is a Grandfather now. I see his face in his daughter son. It is time. In every country and place.

We stand against war.

They are killing Christians in Asia and Africa. Brother killing brother. The sin of man cannot be understood. Where is the respect, concern and love?

“God has no religion.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. ”
― Kahlil Gibran

“My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.” –George Washington

I’m tire of war. I’m tire of men who seek disagreement before solving problems. I’m sick of leaders who will send gun, weapons and Soldiers before food, water and medicine.

“War serves only the warlords and the graveyards!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Care: not carnage
Love: not loathing
Peace: not pieces”
― Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

Thank you for reading. Pray for peace. Pray that all children are safe. Pray for a day when war is a distance myth. Christians , Buddhism,Islam and Hinduism must come together. Stop the killing.

The child murdered could of been the light to save our planet?

Coyote

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17 Responses to ““You are gone and I’m here””

Hi John War will end when mankind are no more! Thank you for liking my poem “Tone!” Peace and Best wishes. The Foureyed Poet.

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By Malctg - The Foureyed Poet. on July 3, 2016 at 7:40 pm

Thank you for reading and you are welcome.

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By johncoyote on July 4, 2016 at 12:18 pm

Well written and the message is pure and beautiful

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By fais on October 17, 2014 at 1:39 pm

Thank you for reading and the comment. I do appreciate.

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By johncoyote on October 17, 2014 at 2:18 pm

I really understood the words soul to soul.It fired up my passion for peace.

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By missstilletto on October 12, 2014 at 10:52 pm

Amen – we are all together. I cried reading this blog!!

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By mihrank on October 12, 2014 at 8:56 pm

We have lost so many and what did we repair? War leave no winners. Thank you for reading and the comment.

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By johncoyote on October 12, 2014 at 9:43 pm

Reblogged this on Cherokee Billie Spiritual Advisor and commented:
Well said!

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By Cherokee Billie on October 12, 2014 at 5:36 pm

This touches me so deeply war is such a scourge. It is the everyday people who suffer while the men in charge sit in their Ivory towers and watch their bank balances grow! I’d like to share one of my war poems with you I hope you don’t mind. http://willowdot21.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/4915/

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By willowdot21 on October 12, 2014 at 4:41 pm

Thank you and I will read your poem now.

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By johncoyote on October 12, 2014 at 9:39 pm

Amen! We are all connected.

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By lorriebowden on October 12, 2014 at 3:20 pm

Very inspirational! We can only dream of a world without war but then again dreams come true.

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By sparkz012 on October 12, 2014 at 2:50 pm

We must pray and hope dreams can come true. Thank you for reading and the comment.

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By johncoyote on October 12, 2014 at 3:44 pm

Hmmmm. Surely serious. I hope we don’t realise too late that we’re each other’s keeper.

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By amoafowaa on October 12, 2014 at 2:30 pm

I have learn a lot in my life. I learn every life is important. I agree. ” we’re each other’s keeper”. Thank you for reading and the comment.

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By johncoyote on October 12, 2014 at 2:34 pm
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  By amoafowaa on October 12, 2014 at 2:35 pm

Reblogged this on Salient Wanderings and commented:
Inner peace becomes universal peace. Inner strife becomes universal strife.

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By Kindred Wanderer on October 12, 2014 at 2:13 pm

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