The world is crying

I found this poem in a old book. It is 30 years old.

             The world is crying

The world is crying.
Like a forgotten child.

Crying for all the sadness surrounding
every soul on this planet.

My world seem to have forgotten the
dream of peace.

Where all nations can live in harmony.

Where upon all human beings could  learn to cherish
all living life.

But the goal of peace are forgotten.
Men of war control the emotion of the world.

World War two is fading away.
World is falling back to fear and hate.
Talk of peace is gone.
Only threats of war and destruction can be heard.

The day is here.
 Where we are over taken by fear  and ghost.
Now we must turn to tears.

Tears for the child and mother whom home was destroyed
in the way of war.

Tears for the Mother and Father waiting for their child covered
in a USA flag to be brought  home.

Starvation and sickness is running wild and millions are dying daily.

Where are the men of peace?

Can we stop the walk to our destined death?


                              Coyote
                            7 April 1980

Author's Note

Added one line. Very old poem. A Liberal Coyote who believed world could be saved. Today I hope 30 years later. Can we stop the madness? I pray we can.
Coyote

Reviews

[Kathy Van Kurin]

Coyote Poetry,
"The world is crying"
It is heavy that something real when you originally wrote is still a reality now. War is such a part of humanity.
Meaningful line regarding the fear in war; "fear and ghost." Those taken and to be I suppose.....
This was kind of hard to read. but "Where are the men of peace"" Where indeed?

[Coyote Poetry]

I agree Kathy. Little change after 37 years. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[JenLyn]

Who says the world can't be saved? I loved the poem, pretty great write to be 30 years old lol. As always I love your writing. :) 100/100

[Simpleasures]

There will never be peace in the world until Jesus returns, but that's just my belief. It's great to have hope. Nice piece.

[Amber "Victoriomantic" ..]

Definitely a moving poem, and ever-so-relevant to boot. We do not, as a species, seem to learn or recover from our past mistakes, more's the pity. It should not be this way, yet it is. And, of course, that eternal theme could apply to any situation, as well as war. So, as such, this piece is thoroughly versatile and applicable to a lot of situations.

[MissWordSmith]

as usual, you wrote something with a message... a great write.. the words just seeped through me

[black.butterfly]

That was very sad and heart-felt. I hope our dreams of peace will one day be realized.

[Voice]

Very deep, sad write, and so unbelievably true. I’m not sure if we will ever understand why the world is the way it is or why so many people do what they do but I still believe that we can’t give up on humanity. I have walked the cold dark path of a victim and lived in the prison walls which cruelty caged me in. somewhere though I found a light, or maybe it found me. Up until that point I never believed in the possibility of anything better. I was proven wrong. There is still beauty in the world and still people who love with their whole hearts and fight to make a difference for others out there. Your poem shoes I side that must be seen if we are to change it. Powerful write and reminder!!

Voice

[Poeticpiers]

nothing changes. Humans inhumanity to other humans is unbelievable

[Gandré]

And imagine, nothing changed, nothing changed it even got worse. Beautiful poem. yes this: " Where we are over taken by fear and ghost."

[HorrorMaster]

nice poem

[Ross Saunders]

Very thought provoking and in depth poem here. A lot of good images and ideas are expressed here. Good emotion and tone. Well done.
"But the goal of peace are forgotten." I think that should be goals right there. There were a couple of minor things like that, but nothing too major that I really noticed.