Second Thought Warmongers

Listen boys
Stop playing with your toys
In your prams
Tossing them away as if
They hold no value.
Sort it out...
Start to be nice to each other.

Oh forget it shall we?
I cannot point in any direction from here.
Apart from this sweet compass that I own.

Listen
Hear yourself
You are your own belief.

There you are...
Right up down and next to me
I cannot go the way you do
I wonder who must be right
As if we know about fighting.

Ask a child about walking around.
Let him suck at his fingers
As you consign so many to die.






Poetry by jenks The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2010-06-01 at 03:58

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ken d williams The PoetBay support member heart!
Back in the 70's I went to the then Soviet union. Whil ythear I did my best to meet and talk with people. One such meeting stick's in my mind. One sked me '' Do you wont to goo to war with us?'' , she was genuinely asking fore the look on her face was one of worry. I smiled I felt like laughing out loud. '' No '' said me , '' You have nothing that I , we cant have by trading '' , '' And don't you think , to many graves as it filled boy our ward dead '' '' no need too add any more , dont you think?. She smiled , we both smiled we all smiled.
Any one who has ever visited a war cemetery , or been to Volgograd ( formally Stalingrad , or Leningrad ( now St Pertersgrad ) l. And notisde how empty they are , fore city's so few people about their day.Will think and think again. About the glory of war . I am forchanet I have lived not too be sent off to war. Tho my father and his father did.
Ken D Williams
2010-06-01


Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
Linda, your poem reminds me of bumper sticker I saw on a pickup truck yesterday. It said, "Men rule the world. Need I say more?"

Larry
2010-06-01


normalil
Testosterone is the scourge of mankind Linda.
2010-06-01


NicholasG
My mum ditched the pram the minute I learned to walk. As soon as I good really good at it she put a leash on me.I'm not so sure about this parenting thing.
2010-06-01