A Haiku - War
Nature at its worst....
Knives slash with no time to rust....
Playing "War Games" now.
Just "...imaginable strife."
Game Day: we all lose.
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M. A. D. even then.
Carnage mourned by the dead ones.
"All hail!" the victors.
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Weep... those left behind
Lives lost both sides of the line.
No one knows the cost.
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"But we won!" you say.
"Lived to fight another day!"
But, what price to pay?
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At what future cost
Of minds, muscles, offspring lost?
Thoughts, loves, genius: toast.
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"Ashes to ashes...
Dust to dust." Sashes, bugles,
All for mankind's lust.
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They call them "remains."
Something is always missing.
At the table, too.
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Corporations say:
"Nature abhors a vacuum.
You can be replaced!"
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More fighters, more blood,
"Your country needs you. Games on!"
(More sinew and limbs.)
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Peace at the ready.
It forfeits its turn too soon.
Time to play "Peace Games."
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© 2014 Demas W. Jasper All rights reserved.
A History of Wars:
If all else fails, untie the military's hands....
- A Haiku - Wars' Aftermaths
What you sow, is what you will reap. Sow terror and you yourselves will reap terror, if that saying is true. The Nazi Germans bombed cities and slaughtered millions. Assassins will fare the same.