_You are gone and I’m here.
You are gone and I’m here.
A Poem by Coyote Poetry
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
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
strong statements – facebooked
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I know. I lost friends to Iraq and what did we accomplish?
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and I have friends still struggling with PTSD from Vietnam. We didn’t accomplish anything there either.
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I agree. I had many good friends/father who survived the Vietnam and Korean wars. Some were fighting till the end. No winners in war.
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New war arise everywhere right now and I see suffering everywhere.
Women, men and children are the victims of this situation.
It is a sad, sad and dark reality …
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I agree. I saw the left-over people who were homeless, hungry and sick. I went on 5 water, food and medicine missions for President Clinton. It is sad we live in a country(USA) that spend 25 cent on every tax dollar for war. We need new and wiser leaders. Can create friendship with a fist or a gun.
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These people are politicians who want to profit money. I know that partly these powerful people are working together with the criminals as well. If one make war, then one has to produce war equipments and those who sell will earn from the buyers. And while war is happening, then the pharma firms will produce medicines and the pharma profitting from the buyers – everyone of these are taking advantages from the people and that is how they make the world wide business with each other. A clever web of crimes, war, political powers and business …. 😦
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You words are the sad truth.
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Yes, the way of the World. Sad, indeed.
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