Mans´Inhumanity To Man

Where have all the flowers gone?

Long time passing

Where have all the flowers gone?

Long time ago.

Where have all the young men gone?

Gone to graveyards everywhere.

When will they ever learn?

When will we ever learn?

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Flower power song from the 60s,

springs to my mind today.

Young men sent far away to fight,

They don´t seem to have a ´say´

So we pray.

Boys and young men who don´t go to war

Do they do good things with their lives?

Or do they descend on harmless young lads?

Every punch, every kick is a prize.

And we pray.

If God is watching , where was he today?

Did he see the boots fiercely kick?

Did God see my boy with broken jaw for no reason?

Did he see the thugs running away?

Now I pray.

A hardworking lad walking home to his wife

and wanting to see his small baby.

Gets kicked with a malice that springs up from what?

Because thugs that they are have no life.

Are they jealous?

Is it evil within that they see no sin

in the pastimes that they have chosen?

Or are they so dense, that they have no sense

no conscience, no guilt, no care and no hope

So we pray.

How can we NOT pray for delinquents galore?

Humans can do nothing with them.

The flowers have gone,

The soldiers are dying.

yet for these bullies, we pray.

What will it take for a villain to change?

Vindictive, ferocious young men

Can they be taught... The Golden Rule?

What they´ve done could be done unto them.!!!

But we pray.

The Golden Rule was not meant for revenge,

God´s way teaches kindness and love,

but forgiveness is hard,when your child is the victim

Vengance must come from above

So we pray.

We pray for the contemptable,

we pray for self control.

We pray that God will intervene

before this world is no more............