Answer the Cries

What is our answer
to the cries, the tears,
for those who've fallen.

Echoed wails,
speak the tales,
of carnage and destruction.

Seek a truth, 
from shattered lives,
and that, to quell the anger?

Histories tilt,
wars broken trail,
the insanity, prevails!

Black and blue, filthy skies,
smoldering clouds of death,
shall in time, dissipate,
as soldiers draw last breath.

Conflict reins, seems our fate,
no answer for the cries.
Peace on earth, can't arrive,
while, fomenting hate!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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Ellison Avatar
November 7, 2023 at 10:19 AM
Do you really believe it's possible?
Hughes Avatar
November 7, 2023 at 11:01 AM
Thanks for checking it out Jack! The last stanza, first line, "Conflict reins, seems our fate" I think provides the answer.
Rodrigues Avatar
October 30, 2023 at 4:43 AM
Those last two lines! Mankind has no recourse for peace. We must look to God!
Hughes Avatar
October 30, 2023 at 6:41 AM
Thank you Kim, I wish I knew the answer!
One Avatar
October 29, 2023 at 12:01 PM
You are right.. hate does not defeat hate.. i wonder if we will every have peace... humans taking land.. then humans wanting their land back... vicious circle humans have been going through.. great poem.
Hughes Avatar
October 29, 2023 at 12:30 PM
I believe it would be naïve of me, to think, that human behavior would somehow change, where in, we might live peacefully with each other. Thank you for commenting, much appreciated!!
Baker Avatar
October 28, 2023 at 4:58 PM
Excellent poetry, Mark. A needed message for our times. Love is the only solution to the hate of this world, my friend. A poet friend in Texas, Bill
Hughes Avatar
October 29, 2023 at 7:30 AM
Thank you Bill! It appears that hate and conflict, wars and death, are part of the human DNA.
Situation Avatar
October 28, 2023 at 4:31 PM
Hate is a death bringer. We make ghost movies when the real monster is hate.
Hughes Avatar
October 29, 2023 at 7:31 AM
Thank you for reading and commenting, much appreciated!
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