Demetrios Trifiatis Poet Free verse

Humanity's Curse

1.
Yesterday night,
To the shrilling winds of history I listened to,
Telling me tales from centuries past, 
Horrifying stories of hate, suffering, and 
Distraction 
Of killings unending 
Of tortures untold 
Of pain unimaginable
Of rivers of blood 
Of seas of tears, 
All works, of appalling 
War! 


2.
I asked myself isn’t it about time, humanity
Overthrew the reign of this wrathful tyrant, 
This soulless dynast of human consciousness,
This relentless torturer of loving hearts,
This destroyer of dreams and aspirations of so 
Many generations of the innocent?

3. 
Hasn’t the hour come yet to put an end to the 
dreadfulness of war? 
How many more centuries have to pass for us to 
Stand up and fight this monstrous slayer?
How many more countries have to be destroyed?
How many genocides have to take place before
We ready would be to:
Bar hatred
Ease suffering
Stop the distractions
End the killings
Eliminate the tortures
Alleviate the pain
Dry the rivers of blood and 
Evaporate the seas of tears?

4.
Aren’t we ready yet to SAY,    
Enough to agony,
Enough to fear,
Enough to death?

But

Yes, to care,
Yes, to compassion, 
Yes, to universal brotherhood?

5.
What are we waiting for to
Erect the structures of understanding? 

What will it take to make us pave the highways of 
Friendship? 

What more do we need to build the bridges of 
Love and compassion?

6.
Let us, therefore, create, NOW,
These structures, 
These highways and 
The bridges that will permit us to: 
Eliminate our differences, 
Resolve our disputes,
Find solutions to our problems,
Give answers to questions that have 
Haunted humanity since its birth,

Thus, at last,

We will glorify God and Man alike 
By 
Establishing the kingdom of blessed
Peace on earth,
From this moment onward and into 
Eternity!


© Demetrios Trifiatis
   04 SEPTEMBER 2014

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Robert Lindley September 6, 2014 at 7:47 AM A great poem that speaks to man's better part , the heart.. Yet as fallen creatures we struggle everyday. War will not cease until after the Judgment and the power of the Son is restored my friend. Man sinned the Dark Door was opened, we must wait for the Son to close it.. Demetrios Trifiatis September 6, 2014 at 9:10 AM Thank you for commenting but I have a question, my friend Robert, till that moment comes, do you suggest that it is all right to kill one another? I do not think so!

Ilene Bauer September 4, 2014 at 6:48 PM i nominate you to be the emperor of the entire world! i wish all of the sentiments you've so magnificently penned here could be somehow made real but i fear that they will remain just a beautiful fantasy... Demetrios Trifiatis September 4, 2014 at 11:07 PM As long as people do not believe in peace WAR will be the emperor! The first step to achieve something is to believe in it! Thank you for the ...nomination, dear Ilene, and thank you for taking the time to read it, I appreciate it. ONE DAY people will understand the stupidity of war and that day will be the first day of PEACE on earth! Thank you again!

Anne-Lise Andresen September 4, 2014 at 4:19 AM - An important, powerful and accomplished poem - war atrocities applies to all people on earth - Torture and killing in cold blood ..... we see it every day - Enough? ..... Will it end? - Thank you for posted this write Demetrios ! - oxox // Anne-Lise :) Demetrios Trifiatis September 4, 2014 at 4:41 AM Thank you, once more, my dear friend Anne Lise, for your sensitivity and concern! Also thank you for your gracious comment. The war will end if we understand that it never bring solutions but only creates problems. YES! We can defeat war if we all fight for it! Probably it will take years or even centuries BUT one day humanity will wake up and see that the answer is peace!

Eileen Manassian September 4, 2014 at 1:48 AM Excellent! Oh! If only the world would listen to your wise words, my dear poet. If only...I've tasted war. My people have gone through genocide. No one cares! The super powers play their games and the innocent suffer. So many lines of your poem are sublime that I will remark on the whole! To say SAY to peace. A beautiful dream...GOD BLESS YOU! Eileen Manassian September 4, 2014 at 2:37 PM Yes, my dear poet. I have written two poems about the Armenian Genocide on this sight: Never Forgotten and Through my Mother's Eyes. I have written about the war in Lebanon. Yes, we need to speak out. Bless you for being a voice for the voiceless. Demetrios Trifiatis September 4, 2014 at 4:35 AM Plato is right when he declares that someone understands something in the degree of his experience and knowledge. You my, dear Eileen, have witnessed war and your people, the Armenians, have been victims of genocide, therefore you understand and you are touched for you and I have suffered from war. It is beautiful to write about love, as I do as well, but I think all of us have a moral obligation to raise human consciousness to a degree as to do whatever we can to obliterate this demon of humanity! God bless you! Thank you!