There was a time before
The loud and earthshaking war
When some remembered
When all was peaceful
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I like the lines 'There was a time before'. As much as I am a war hawk myself, I fear that men, having added some new method of destroying life to the arsenal, are much to quick to implement destruction. Also, it is always the young who must go out and die since they do not have the experience or the where with all to say enough is enough! It is the old men on both sides of a skirmish that send them out to mutual destruction.
you stand behind your opinion in poetry Damn good poem Isaac