Battles

 

 

Fragility lies on the edge of a teardrop

Holding dreams in its delicate hands

You are the mournful call on a quiet night

You are the scream shattering black to white

 

Washing all sorrow that bleeds the earth

Nerve gas and chemical warfare give birth

In the silence of the dreaded drone attack

Do you heed the face of the evil eye as the whips crack

 

There are children who fear the sound of your call

There are young men trying to find purpose thinking its war

There are Generals presidents and merchants kicking open the door

There are mothers whose tears refuse to fall

 

Love was never supposed to be like this

It was never meant to obliterate

Death should be nature calling and accidents of fate

Not the feeding of a war machine not that curse

 

Fragility held on a knifes edge

Lining suicides on a ledge

We set the stage play the part

Bloody hands and innocence torn apart

Reviews

[Poetic Beauty]

War destroys so much...it destroys the land, people, love, hope, kindness and so much more. I love the word uses in the this piece. Mothers who's tears won't come is a great line. Love does not destroy it creates and builds and repairs. When are we going to learn that war isn't the answers. It only creates more problems and innocent people are always killed or affects in this process.

[MOON]

Thanks for the review, the old adage we live and learn does not seem to apply to war. Seems we go down the same road expecting a different outcome...alas!

[Poetic Beauty]

War is nothing more than politicians need for power. Power over other people land and so on. War only creates more depravity and it also destroys the lives of those who fight in the war. Each side believing their country or cause is right. We need to stop the madness.

[MOON]

Indeed! Overthrow politicians!

[Poetic Beauty]

Better yet put them on the battlefield and lets see how their perspective changes.

[Sami Khalil]

You have covered in this splendid poem most of the human conditions of fragility from innocence lost to wars , to living on the edge , to families torn apart for so many reasons , for us becoming profit only and numbers for merchants of all sorts...Thank you for sharing this great one...:)

[MOON]

Thanks Sami people kill each other for no reason at all crazy world we live in.
Take care!

[Sami Khalil]

You are so right. Always find the hidden promoter ...Take care...:)

[Sami Khalil]

^^~^^ :)...........