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Thursday, 17 March 2022

Let peace prevail

 How do world leaders who are directly responsible for starting wars


 sleep at night?


 Leave alone sleep.


How do they rest, eat or go about their daily lives?


Do these despicable people pray?




They can't be normal - can they? 


No twinge of pity?


No remorse or guilt?


No feeling of sadness?


No sorrow or pain?




Are they liable to feel stress?


Do they really have hearts, minds, and souls like all of us? 


Or are these selfish, despicable monsters, so devoid of all human emotion,


 that they smile and go about their depraved lives


 without a care in the world?




What sickens me is their condescending arrogance 


Their disdainful swagger 


Their deplorable treachery  


Their repulsive, unscrupulous behavior.




Are they family men?


Wives, mothers, sisters, kids? 


Are their friends as evil as them?


Do they not see the killing – the bloodshed of innocents? 


Babies, children, women, and men are literally being slaughtered by the second


And not an iota of mercy? 


Are these not heinous crimes


That sickens one to the core?  




Do they not perceive the ruination of houses, hospitals, schools, museums, and the like? 


Cities that have taken decades to build are being bombed and bulldozed to smithereens


 and reduced to rubble in the blink of an eye.


Families are being torn asunder and some will never meet again.


 


For how long will this insidious campaign continue?


For how long will these political perverts, persist with their preposterous plans?


How long till the guns are silenced? 


Our world is bleeding 


Let peace prevail

Wednesday, 2 March 2022

War is not the answer

 War is NOT the answer - it never was 




Who does a war benefit?


Who stands to gain?


Who instigated who and pitted one against the other?




Definitely not the citizens of the countries involved


Definitely not the soldiers who pull the triggers


Certainly not the pilots who drop those bombs 


Nor the fathers and sons who are forced 


To abandon their weeping families 


And fight a war, they know precious little about.




Then who? 




Right now


Friends, families and neighbors


Besides being torn asunder 


Are destroying each other’s property 


Across a supposedly - neighborly border 


And killing one another mercilessly 


To placate the desires 


Of leaders they inwardly despise 


And appease the egos of despots who rule them


With iron fists and velvet gloves.  




Who actually benefits?


Who will win this war? 


Businessmen? Bureaucrats? Presidents? Politicians? 


Soldiers and Generals? 




This is no petty skirmish


No stealth attack at dawn 


No brief incursion 


No battle for a hillock


It’s not about swords, shields and guns 


Crossbows, daggers and spears 


Bugles, or a call to battle.


 


This is about mouse holing and collateral damage 


A ‘shock and awe’ offensive and rapid dominance 


This is unadulterated genocide


In broad daylight and publicized with defiance.


A disaster of unimaginable proportions.


A holocaust in the making. 


 


Now hundreds and thousands of innocent victims 


Are being pulverized into the dust 


For no fault of their own.


This is a massacre of the innocents 


Involving vacuum bombs, missiles and lasers 


Autonomies weapons and hypersonic aircraft.


 


And this world will pay the price 


Pay we will, and a heavy price it will be 


Literally and figuratively speaking. 


Unquestionably, everyone will pay 


If we are alive to do so. 




Bloodbath, Recession, destabilization 


Are the new buzzwords


Not just in one or two countries 


But the world over.


 


This is a spectacle of immense proportions 


A pandemic of a very different kind 


With no cure or quick fix vaccination in sight


And for a while even the dreaded ‘Covid’


Has been forced to take a back seat


And look on at the unfolding drama




The horrifying clips on the news channels 


Make one’s blood boil.


You don’t need to be a geopolitical expert 


To figure out the grizzly details.




BUT WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER


IT NEVER WAS 


IT NEVER SHOULD BE 




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