YET THEY SAY WE WON THE WAR.
Sadly in a world where there is colossal sadness, loss, pain, death, it can overwhelm. In a supposedly enlightened civilization we are still fighting wars; it is true to say we do not learn from history for if we did war would cease.
At the beginning when they were deciding whether to go to war against Iraq it not only caused leaders of nations to think it caused individuals like myself to think about going to war, and what we thought of war, and why if we believed in it we did or if we didn’t believe why we didn’t huge questions were being asked of every mature person. None of these questions are new however for each generation has asked them myself included.
As I looked at the issue I found it not to be simple in fact I discovered it was complex, and one could see truth for both sides of the argument.
YET THEY SAY WE WON THE WAR.
Women in anguish. Agony…grief….
Weep tears that a lifetime will never
Close the festering wound.
Hatred bile for war rooted deep within….
Scorn. despising them who gave the
decision to send.
Men die…
Children live without fathers,
Mother’s sleep alone in empty beds,
Father’s of son’s comfort their mothers,
Weep their own grief like clinging wrap
Around food for protection.
Mother’s of son’s loose a part
Of themselves..Grow old.
Sisters have No brother’s…
Friend are parted….aunties…uncle’s limp..
Amputee’s…
Yet they say we WON the war.
Much talk is given today about love, caring for the hungry, looking after environment, how fantastic was Mother Theresa and that she was, nevertheless in all of those wonderful things I see a lack which leaves a gigantic crack in the many voices
peddling their philosophies, we are still unable to love our neighbours as ourselves.
The question,
‘Is it right to kill another human?” Seems simple the logical, right answer is No.
The next question to be answered is,
‘Do we defend ourselves from an enemy? “Again the answer appears to be simply yes we do.
The following question then arises,
“Do we fight for truth, justice? Of course we do is the immediate response.
We are then faced in our thinking process with the next perhaps the more harder, huge questions of,
“Do we get involved with someone else’s fight?’ Do we truly understand what the fight is about?
The latter question is the essential question to be answered. I recently in my reflections on this subject wrote the following poem titled,
