Dust to Dust

Given our present situation .... Is war the only answer?

Why does man continue to fight

when suffering is already 

in this package called life

and yet the desire continues to burn

and the bombs keep falling 

  and we watch people crawling

and the blood keeps pouring

while the meta verse keeps talking!

and here is the white castle of lords

they sit pleasantly laughing & discussing their foes

their spiritual aura turned hellish and black 

their legacy left in the bleeding land

the sunset is concealed with smoggy clouds

gapping holes in the tortured ground

if we turn our heads to the universal sky

a speck of dust is where we all reside!

 

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

Sooner or later each one of us will become a speck of dust. It is our destiny. Life is so short you wonder why we can't live and let live. Sadly there will always be conflict. There will always be the Putins and the Hitlers whipping up a frenzy of hatred due to their own greed for power. This poem stirs the thoughts round.

Chris

[Hebe]

Thank you Chris for your review …. Yes there will always be the tyrants …. But we the people have the power , yet they still control us 🤷‍♀️

[Robert Haigh]

Wars usually erupt due to the wrong people being in charge (Putin, a current case in point!). The aggressors are usually dictators, or people elected in corrupt or fixed elections. War is evil, but the world has had to live with it for many centuries. A curse with no apparent cure! One day mankind could be obliterated by atomic warfare. I grieve in advance for the innocent creatures on this planet, caught up in our wars. Mankind will not really be missed! A thought-provoking write!

[Hebe]

Thank you very much for your review .. your absolutely right, we will all go up in a puff of smoke! Then we won’t have a problem with climate change!!!