The passing of peace

Peace must die, a sacrificial lamb.

 

Our way of life is worth too much, in profit terms, to allow for peace to reign. Unused weapons are useless weapons - their cost too great to display in some museum, to become just a memory.

 

They killed Christ, they killed Ghandi, and all we can do now is sing along to Lennon as we watch the war on TV.

 

Peace cannot be allowed to break out.

 

Peace is worth fighting for, the way Orwell foretold, except today it is via remote control and an iPod. How else can we re-elect presidents and balance the books, if not the budget?

Author's Note

I'm experimenting here with free verse.

Reviews

[Ruth]

Blimey! I LOVE it hon!

Those who have always used the power of supposed "free speech" have always - how can I say this - met an untimely end ey?

Peace can happen, people need to realise it is about sharing love and light, healing the divide, not fighting violence with violence!

Great work love

xoxo

[AprilRN1210]

I love the sarcasm in this. I know it isn't funny but couldn't help but giggle in a few spots because they were so "spot on". Excellent piece.

[Poetic Beauty]

I still feel you on this piece.

[h d e rushin]

interesting perspective. The last war that accomplished peace was the one
that both parties got tired of waging.

[Mia]

I'm back to learn from your awesomeness :) So I goggled free verse because I wasn’t sure what it was. I had a vague idea and it turns out that my vague idea was spot on. This is great! I think you're amazing...I've said this and it turns out you’re not a one hit wonder. Yay! The opening line is intense "Peace must die, a sacrificial lamb.” You waste no time getting straight to it and I was hooked from start to finish. Peace?! I'm starting to think it’s a figment of our imagination. ‘They’ made it up to keep ‘us’ occupied. We’re always fighting for peace while ‘they’ keep fighting wars. We always lose and ‘they’ always win. It’s like hope. Hard to define, easy to claim you have it and almost always impossible to prove its existence.

[Jeremy Baker]

Thank you for your kind words and review, it was much appreciated =)

[SHEEMA HUQ]

Some quite provokotive assertions here, the lived reality of war zones for communites are another matter.

[Spookers]

This is pretty good. I find it ironic that people "Fight" for "Peace"

[WhiteWillow]

Absolutely love the second line. Sadly, its true.

I like your free verse...would like to read more...

[An owl on the moon]

There is such a horrid, haunting feel that moves in shadows throughout your work... how money now moves mountains and armies.. and how peace is only ever found at a price just a bit too high...

[stars are far]

This is so amazing..
This line was perfect:"unused weapons are used weapons"
Perfect..