And The World Moved On Poem by Paul Warren

80 million died in World War 2
And the world moved on

37 million died in the Great War
And the world moved on

20 million died in the 1918 influenza epidemic
And the world moved on

20 million were killed by Stalin
And the world moved on

6 million Jews were killed by Hitler
And the world moved on

3.5 million died in the Vietnam War
And the world moved on

3 million died by the Pol Pot regime
And the world moved on

3 million died by the British hand in India suppressing independence
And the world moved on

382,000 were killed by Saddam Hussein
And the world moved on

300,000 were killed by Idi Amin
And the world moved on

It makes me wonder how we survive
When our best occupation is killing each other.

© Paul Warren Poetry