Hello, I am War

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By Social Conscience



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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Zsuzsy Bee profile image

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

knolyourself profile image

knolyourself  says:
2 years ago

'You talkin' to me?' You talkin to me?' 'Me?' Great stuff.

robie2 profile image

robie2  says:
2 years ago

very nice--look forward to more from "social conscience"

Social Conscience profile image

Social Conscience  says:
2 years ago

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

:)

robie2 profile image

robie2  says:
2 years ago

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.

Social Conscience profile image

Social Conscience  says:
2 years ago

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.

robie2 profile image

robie2  says:
2 years ago

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?:-)

Social Conscience profile image

Social Conscience  says:
2 years ago

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.

glassvisage profile image

glassvisage  says:
2 years ago

Perfect depiction in words and more :)

EYEAM4ANARCHY profile image

EYEAM4ANARCHY  says:
12 months ago

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.

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