If Only
Everybody hates Marx
The creator of communism
Let's make the proletariat
rise to attack the Borghese
Yet is that not Karma
Friedrich Engels Family
owned large textile factories in Salford
An area in Greater Manchester, England
Mary Burn was an illiterate
working-class Irish woman,
showed Friedrich Engels
The woman being abused
In the cotton factories of Manchester
If people had not been abused
We would not have Communism
The woman started work at nine years of age
The cotton fibres in the air
caused them to get asthma
They died by the time they turned
twenty eight
Yet if we look back in history
and allow anger to replace love
If we rip down the statues
and destroy the past
We repeat the mistakes of yesterday
creating war, creating hatred
destroys your future
War after war is repeated
as each group believes
They know best
As hatred grows
to defeat common sense
The world grows in anger
Anger leads to wars
Wars lead to the death of innocents
Children pay with blood
In a war, even the men
Come to get sick
of the death and suffering
watching their friends
lying dead on the ground
Nobody wins from the wars
Soldiers learn to develop skills
Becoming excellent at killing the enemy
They have a right to feel proud
standing up to defend their country
It takes courage to face your fears
But ask any soldier
Would you like to see the end of the war
Would you like to see your friends alive
I'm sure that every soldier
would love to see the end of wars
so much more
could be achieved with friendship
Seventy percent of Pakistan's
Governments budget
Go into buying weapons
to defend itself against India
How much of India's budget
goes into defending against Pakistan
Around and around you go
Building weapons to stop wars
And yet you still keep on having wars
You could all create a better economy
If the money you spent on weapons
could instead be spent on creating employment
friendship, the growth of human respect
Your people are working, and houses are built
poverty eliminated
These things are not impossible
If people just become friends
Does it matter if we have different
Religions, if we have different beliefs
Does what your neighbour thinks
Impact on your life
Surely we can learn to care
without being the same as each other
The rich learned to abuse the poor
Marx learned to hate the rich
Starlin learned to kill
If we worked together
The rich build the factories
The poor become workers
Workers become the consumers
We all need each other
Copyright © Bernard Barclay | Year Posted 2020
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