In anguish we uplift
A new unhallowed song:
The race is to the swift;
The battle to the strong.
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The rulers cry aloud, " We cannot cancel war, The end and shroud Of wrongs the worst abhor,
A poem that displays the horrors of war & comes to the conclusion that it is futile & creates an even more broken society than the the one that tried to repair wrongs with sending man to battle. The last line states it is not God's wish...
You've captured the horrers of war. Thanks for sharing it. I hope you will read my poem 'War No More.'
POEM REMINISCENT OF Children Of Darkness BY JOAN BAEZ