War Is Where Nobody Wins

War Is where Nobody wins And everybody sins At the unbeautiful bar War is hell on earth At birth God created humans To be better than the lions And the other nefarious predators That’s a given War transforms young men And young women Into absurd killers and murderers War is criminal War is suicidal The truth hurts. Oh! Boy. Oh! Boy Vile foragers oppress, attack, maim and destroy Common sense is absent in wartime No countries are at their prime Where they harvest dead victims, casualties Pains, sufferings, animosities and calamities War is immoral War is awful War is for crazed gangsters War is for ireful bouncers Death comes early for numberless youngsters Families are worrying, crying and mourning And don’t care about vanity, flags and flowers Families only care about the living Love, peace, harmony and humanity War is wasteful War is baneful War is for dreadful pit-bulls War is for god-awful fools Premature death is unacceptable and crazy And cemeteries are plentiful and not empty How sad and unnecessary to be so strong And to die so early and so young How sad and inhumane to be so wrong And to fail flat to unite in order to sing a fine song Life is precious on all sides Intolerance chokes and arrogance divides Diplomacy is the key to resolving our current differences Dialogue is the password to open up countless entrances To find common ground Better and friendlier sound War is never the equitable answer to the question But love is the quintessentially perfect solution To the human or mundane equation. Copyright © February 2022, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved. Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.