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

[Victoria PoetryBunny]

Interesting thought in this free verse. Leaves the reader with something to think about.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Nice bit of irony. You are good at this.

[Lane-roe]

Very clever! It does seem quite ironic that we start wars and violence in order to achieve peace. It's almost like conflict and violence is the more natural order of the world than harmony. A great write :)

[Midori]

I love it! It is vary entertaining

[joshua deathdealer]

this is so true. nice verse.

[Leslie Philibert]

Jeremy is simply a very gifted poet who is not scared of taking risks,looking at new styles and new ideas.I`ve read a number of his poems, all they are always superbly crafted and interesting pieces of quality literature.Great.

[M.Babu]

Ah what a wonderful approach to stigmatizing war...got me thinking it did :D

"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 -"

Such carefully chosen words that implies a level of wisdon to them...I really enjoyed this piece...very different to the usual war approaches.

Great stuff.

~M.Babu~

[Teri B]

The irony of peace, eh? :)

This feels almost like a prose poem in the way it is written, though it it not crazy!

[Muse]

I agree our way of life is too costly. Something must change....and it needs to happen soon.

[Sleeping Maiden]

Nicely done! You bring events of how our world is like. Peace is difficult to have in this day. Lovely poem.