Requiem 😞

Heartbreak dirge, monody living rent-free in my head

Screeching cries from ebbing souls

Aching for survival

Fleeing lethal lead shot from fowling pieces

Stray pellets dashing into dreams

Flaying hopes, visions and fantasies

War-torn

Who cast the first stone?

Does it really matter?

No one sees the end of a war

War births wounds that fester

They make scars that never heal

And a vengeful generation fluent in the art of retribution

A soul for a soul, a missile for a missile

And soon the battlefield becomes a red sea

Source: Al-Jazeera

Watering mother Earth with sorrowful renditions

Withering life’s essence with shots of requital

Fighting a holy war with a badge of villainy

Bludgeoning the harmless, sinless, purest of souls 🚼

Latching on to a mother who’s skull was pelted in

Fighting a war she never started

Source: Al-Jazeera

Mother’s burying their children

Father’s burying their world

And God’s good Earth, on which they feud & for which they fray, swallowing them all up as they fall into the void 😞

War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin’!

🎵 Edwin Starr (1970)

War – Edwin Starr