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 

mg