Cease Fire

The Crusades Began a Holy War
Which Continues to this Day.
We Kill, and Kill, and Now it Seems,
This shall Always be the Way.

One Side Scores, the Others Die,
Then the Cycle is Repeated.
It never Stops, It’s never Done;
The Battles Grow More Heated!

The Way to Peace, it Seems so Clear,
Is not Through Senseless Slaughter.
I Appeal to All, “Please Quit the Fight!”
Save our Sons and Daughters!

To Find Our Way out of the Dark,
We Need only Seek the Light.
A Solution Lies within our Grasp:
Forget who’s Wrong or Right!

This God or that, it Makes no Matter.
This Truth I have Acquired:
Be they Different, or the Same,
The Gods would Preach Cease Fire!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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Brown Avatar
June 3, 2010 at 10:48 AM
Congratulations on your poetry making it through the first round Steven. I wish you the best in the finals. Love, Carol
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May 31, 2010 at 2:50 PM
Congratulations on making it through the first round of the Poetry Soup contest with this poem. Best wishes in the finals. Karen
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May 2, 2010 at 3:36 AM
congratulations on being featured i enjoyed reading your poem on war a good write. Cameron
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April 27, 2010 at 9:20 AM
Congratulations on your poetry being featured this week Steven. Love, Carol
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April 26, 2010 at 11:08 AM
Many congratulations on having your poetry featured >> James
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January 20, 2010 at 9:54 AM
Thank you Carol for dropping by and for the comment. I will check out your poems as soon as I can. The gracious welcome is appreciated.
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January 20, 2010 at 5:40 AM
I would like to welcome you to PoetrySoup Steven. I also wish you the best in your writing endeavors. If you have questions please feel free to ask anyone here. We are all willing to help and if we don't know the answer we will find someone who does. Love, Carol
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January 19, 2010 at 8:30 AM
Thank you, Joe, for the wonderful comment. I really appreciate those who like my work. I will be posting more poems soon, so I hope you will come back to check them out, as well.
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January 18, 2010 at 8:39 PM
If every heart sang the song of your poem, Earth would be a better place. So please write more, and pen your emotion, And bless us with your grace. (a rhyming comment for a beautifully rhyming poem.) -joe
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