Sarajevo 1995 - Another Cease Fire

SARAJEVO-1995  Another Cease Fire
As old as death and cold as nevermore
all set to stone, by those who've died before;
the acts of love, though viewed a falacy
reveal the truth of what has come to be
and given to what friendship has in store.

This city with its palaces should die
though all the world would come to wonder why,
for better off the world would come to be
than letting blood to flow so fast and free
in gutterways, where life lives on its' lie.

There'll never be agreement, in our day
for east is east, and west, the other way,
and taste for blood is strong and long and deep,
from promises that time will never keep,
and all the world has nothing more to say.

Who'll end the peace so fast we'll never know
enough to place the blame where it should go?
There's always time to bury those who've died
but not enough for helping those who've cried,
and peace is what the reapers never sow.

© Ron Wilson aka Vee Bdosa the Doylestown Poet
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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Bdosa Avatar
December 10, 2016 at 8:00 AM
Sad but very true, and my prediction is that it is not over in the Balkins even as we speak, and about to flare up again.
Breedt Avatar
December 10, 2016 at 6:31 AM
This is gut wrenching stuff . Only those who intimately know fear and the stench of death on the streets can understand the insanity. The tears of Sarajevo and Bosnia was all for nothing.
Stover Avatar
November 15, 2016 at 9:04 PM
Extremely thought provoking and well written. An absolutely beautiful poem. I love poems about history. History is a reminder of our humanity and all that is a stake.
Vaso Avatar
November 14, 2016 at 9:56 PM
This is an amazing poem, I love the emotion and passion, when one is writing of history. You make history, human! A Fav!
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