Obsession

Like distant drums in rhythm pound
Endless rows of human kind
Marching soldiers cross the ground
Towards some battle line
Bound to those who went before
Obsessed in savage pride
Forge blindly to the raging war
To slay the other side
Wisdom lost in murdered dreams
Learned naught from battles past
Dead heroes lay in bloody streams
When oh God will be our last?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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January 30, 2012 at 6:20 AM
Congratulations on your well deserved featured poetry this week Richard. Love, Carol
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January 17, 2012 at 11:12 AM
Sounds like the southern soldiers of the Civil War...shoeless and starving...no where but a rock to lay their weary heads. Grand stand write here, sir!
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