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!

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Date: 11/7/2023 10:19:00 AM
Do you really believe it's possible?
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Mark Hughes
Date: 11/7/2023 11:01:00 AM
Thanks for checking it out Jack! The last stanza, first line, "Conflict reins, seems our fate" I think provides the answer.
Date: 10/30/2023 4:43:00 AM
Those last two lines! Mankind has no recourse for peace. We must look to God!
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Date: 10/30/2023 6:41:00 AM
Thank you Kim, I wish I knew the answer!
Date: 10/29/2023 12:01:00 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.
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Date: 10/29/2023 12:30:00 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!!
Date: 10/28/2023 4:58:00 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
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Date: 10/29/2023 7:30:00 AM
Thank you Bill! It appears that hate and conflict, wars and death, are part of the human DNA.
Date: 10/28/2023 4:31:00 PM
Hate is a death bringer. We make ghost movies when the real monster is hate.
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Date: 10/29/2023 7:31:00 AM
Thank you for reading and commenting, much appreciated!
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