Hello, I am War
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I Can't Stand Myself Anymore - HELP ME!
When I was born
I was an idea
A GOOD IDEA
In the minds of some people who wanted to make a country
a people
better - stable - well.
I began with
JUSTICE in my pocket
and FREEDOM in my breast
in most cases...
I began in the minds of men who wanted to convey
ORDER
to a people
To make their lives better
At some stages of my early life, it is true
that I was simply an idea to establish a family power
But this
WAS SUPPOSED TO BE POSITIVE
For the good of a family
for the stability of the same
For the future of the same.
But now, I have grown into a great beast of havoc
ravaging most of the world!
People took me - manipulated any good qualities I contained
turned me into evil and possession
AND MADE ME WHAT I AM TODAY
I am in the governments
I am in the streets of many countries, pointing my guns
My cannons, my technology right at the common people
Who are innocent
Who cannot even fathom the era from which I was
originally born.
I am in the minds of the common people, too
In their fears and pain and loss and
and
and
and
and all the emotions
and situations
that have no right to be put into words
I can't stand myself
STOP USING ME THIS WAY!
I am supposed to be liberty and health
Freedom and happiness for all
I am supposed to be equality and merit
I am supposed to be resolution
SOLUTION!
I was meant to have an end!
I Have Lived Too Long
Please...
I have suffered too long at the hands of man.
Please - kill me.
I don't want to exist anymore.
All my good ideas have been corrupted
I am not what I meant to be.
When I look down, daily, upon the globe
and watch all the people, blood flowing out
into the rivers
the land
bleeding into the dust
I cannot believe I have been used thusly
And I have lost control in the minds of mankind
Admittedly - I knew early on in my life that my
existence could work out two ways
One way would solve the problems of humanity
The other would be the vehicle that every
twisted, evil idea
would travel by to threaten and reach and and harm
all of mankind
I must offer myself to all and willingly walk to my execution
In order that I am obliterated
from mankind's realm and exist no more
C'mon - OFF ME!
I have lived far to long
I am weary and sickened and ancient
Surely, you must know how to kill
If you have any mercy left
Kill ME!!
Eradicate me - Make me not exist
Let it be your last act of destruction.
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Comments
'You talkin' to me?' You talkin to me?' 'Me?' Great stuff.
very nice--look forward to more from "social conscience"
Nice???!!! Argh...Okay I'm going back to school then, to learn how to re-write that so that it isn't nice. Only I would write about 'war' and someone call it 'nice.'
Didn't you feel just a little anger - desperation - frustration - or something...please TELL ME I don't have to re-write this 'war' blurb!
;)
Are you sure you didn't just read about the rose?
Oh - thank you for the comment, robie2 - very nice of you
:)
Cool your jets, social:-)obviously I didn't mean war was nice or human suffereing pretty. But your anthropomorphizing war and having "war" speak to the reader was unusual, interesting and yes, a " nice" literary device. You show war begging humanity to kill it--you make war self- hating and sorry about the horrors it inflicts....which kind of gives war an almost sympathetic personality. That is what I meant by nice. Do I feel "anger, desperation, frustration "in response to your "blurb"? I would say that the"blurb" as you call it, made me feel sadness and weariness about the inevitability of human nature and the unspeakable things we humans have always inflicted on one another. I am too old and cynical to think it will ever come to an end, but I thought this poem was much more than a "blurb" and a powerful comment and I'll be watching and waiting for more of your "social conscience" on hubpages.
Thank you, robie2 - and yes - the intent was at anthropo-whattahattayacallit. War is a tool - there's no evil there. Humans make violence and use the tool. lol at my jets.
ahhhhhh yes, humans control war not the other way around--a point often forgotten by people at war--or contemplating it--or suffering from the ravages of it. And history is always written from the perspective of the winner of the war, isn't it? So then where does the truth lie?:-)
You actually expect me to answer that last question, robie2?? LOL 'where does the truth lie?' Where do you think the truth lies? <--noting the paradox there LOL.
Perfect depiction in words and more :)
Very ni... well written. I like it.
I don't, however, agree with one of the main points. War was never good and has always been evil. It's true that its goals and, ultimately, its results may have, on occasion, been good and those who fought it might not have been evil or harbored evil intentions. However, war and violence in general by nature involve the commission of evil acts, even if at times they have been a necessary evil carried out by good men. But, even then, at least one member of its participants would have to be engaging in evil acts in order to justify the response.














Zsuzsy Bee says:
2 years ago
If it were only that easy! To stop life against life. I don't understand why life seems to go so cheap...
regards Zsuzsy