Passionate Pacifist Plea


Should hearts obey man or God?
This is so dirt simple — 
Two sheaf ears in a pacifist pod

Fear thee anthem thunder
more than the
firmament lightning rod?

There’s no question
which one
gets the soul loyalty nod

Doesn’t dove eyes
starry follow  the Celestial sky will?
Compassionate commandment 
engraved in stone:
A holy decree, “Thou shall not kill”

This passionate pacifist plea
deserves an universal bleat

War paint ain’t peace palette proper
Napalm hope being
dropped from a camouflage chopper

Silo echo prayers,
whisper incensed Arrows 
are wavy boasting
Cemetery sepulchre rows
ere manicured revelry neat

Olive branch naysayers
extend digital particles fungi
Angry flow bloodstream
trigger the plutonium release

Obey a loving God,   not hateful man, 
ought not we?
Bullet dodge thermal extinction plan
is this scarlet ink sob, 
pacifist plea
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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January 13, 2020 at 8:27 PM
Am not a pacifist myself, as I will not hesitate to defend myself, but I hear your nobly expressed plea. Well-placed, my friend. Thanks, Gershon
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