What men are capable of...

I saw bad things in my life. What men have done for their hate.

  What men are capable of.


                 What legacy will we leave?
                 I hope no more then we were
                 the one's who stand by and
                 allow the Wars and disease
                 to deteriorate the dreams
                 of our children.


I stood by a river in Bosnia.
Dead bodies floating in the current.
Killed for sake of religion.
As I pulled the bodies out.
I was sickened by the deeds of men.

I felt so cold.


Were the Angels watching?
Waiting with open arms for the innocent?


Who is crying for them?
 

No-one is speaking out for the people in the way
of the war machine and violence.


Men who speak of tales of fabled bogey men.
The profiteer and big business using lobbyist
to keep war coming.
We need to be identify and put them out of business.


Using young men and woman to fight for oil and land...


Life is simple.
Treat people how you desire to be treated.
Religion should be  personal.


I don't believe the common man and woman would desire war
 before peace talks.


I never met a woman or
man who desire  to die.
Never met a Mother or Father who wanted their child
to die in War.


The profiteer and big business hide behind false words and tales
to create the ability to get richer.


What men are capable of?

The great men of peace are rarely heard today;
Block out by stories of ghosts and demons by leaders with
pocket full of lobbyist money.


Cities and towns are now war grounds.
No safe place for the innocent.
Can we stop the terror and violence?


I have stacked the bodies of the innocent.
Just old men and woman.
I pray to the Spirit of the earth, sky and water .
Take care of these poor people.
Please give them peace with you.


Is the world is past the healing point;
Too late for the sheep being led to slaughter.
Who will cry out then?


Too late for the babies being born to chaos and War;
Their dreams and hope.
Cut-off by the hunger and greed of War?





                        Coyote
                        6 August 2009 


          

Author's Note

A old poem from the past. I was a simple water and gas mission. Me and my Soldiers found death bodies of old men, woman and children floating in a river. We pull them out and stacked the body on the shore of the river.. What men could kill for sake of religion? Old world need to find a better road. I pray.
Coyote

Reviews

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

it is always those on their clean thrones far removed from sweat and blood and tears who are more than avariciously willing to send their people (victims) into the fray on a thread of profit that streams back to the fat cats in their leather seats counting pennies on each dead man's eyes~

and as a nations throughout history~we've allowed it~ participated in it~ the human species confounds my senses~ I will never understand~

your poem cracks the shell of lies fed to the masses and releases the pain that mankind floods across the globe endlessly~
heartbreak in a lonely pocket~watchers watching~dying everywhere

[Ed Hart]

yes, and it doesn't end there...it echoes across the decades...passed on to the children, who find it easy the reenact what they've been shone...why is this such a secret...

[Mark]

I really like the line, I stood by a river in Bosnia. I think you could work more with that symbolism. Maybe not in this poem but in another.

[Art Sun]

Hunger, greed, power, War...how is the world able to even survive with all this hate is beyond me, the participation is like a continued war of the Heavens...nice work on this piece...

[HorrorMaster]

I enjoy it, very nice

[ashley]

This is unbelievably powerful. It brought tears to my eyes. This line: "Is the world is past the healing point" gave me chills. This is just... there isn't a word for it.
Fantastic job, thank you for this poem. :D

[Y.F.]

Unfortunately this is the reality we live in - our world became a playground for people who make money out of the pain and suffering of others. People are being brainwashed on all sides that war is the right solution, and there are plenty of extremists out there who DO desire war, and WOULD rather kill than reach a peaceful solution. I was also forced into this battlefield once, and I would take away my own life before I'd let them drag me back in. I've sent you a read request for a poem I wrote on the subject after I finished my service.

Good write,
YF

[Soul Magic✯]

this is a powerful scribe. it's so sad the way the world is jus killing each other. this is so well written. thanks for sharing this ink

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Man is born unlimited possibilities... we are also born with free will and the truth is so many use those possibilities for greed and power and some just waste it... Very powerful piece with a topic that we all need to pay attention too.

[Tina Kline]

A tragic topic but one that needs voicing and is so true. I thank you for that. And I wish humans could live peacefully instead of finding reasons to kill each other and make those reasons sound so important. I believe most of the wars that have happened didn't really need to happen, they were just for someone else's greed.

[Star Wolf]

Wow. I'm very impressed. Everything you said here is so true. It's not the people that want war, like you say, they just want to live their lives peacefully, its the people in power ruled by greed. What a wonderful poem you've written.