War and No Peace

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    Poem Commentary

    This poem is about war, obviously. Not a topic I usually touch on, but I felt inspired and it just came to me. I believe that the country makes war out to be this easy, lovely thing and I kind of wanted to express the reality of it all. I kind of wrote it from the 'bad guys' point of view, even though in war, we are all eachother's enemies. I am not pro war. I am not anti war. Just inspired.

    War and No Peace

     

     Watch your brothers fall, watching them die

    Hear the screams of innocent, the ring of gunfire

    Children cry

    Mothers die

    Peace is well past disturbed

    It’s been replaced

    By absurd murder, ash from down-fallen buildings

    Homes, homes of loving hearts

    Pain and suffering cancel out hearts

    Hearts aren’t required to bleed

    Death camps tear apart families

    Brother

    Sister

    Wives

    Husbands

    Children

    No, hearts aren’t required to suffer

    To bleed

    To die

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    sk8erpoet commented on War and No Peace

    12-21-2010

    i love this poem..the imagery you created was really great ....great write..you are a great writer...sk8
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    Shelby

    01/12/2011

    Thank you for the kind words.

    Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

    Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.

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