War
Conflict, killing, death and destruction
Fiery clouds like volcanic eruptions
Sweeping across as if winds from hell
Oblivious of the cries or the tolling of bells
Ravaging, raping, mother earth
Humanity forgotten, savagery first
Old and young, turning lives into dust
Wombs with unborn, just victims of lust
The lust for power, oh wealth and all
No value of life, just riches the goal
Senseless and absurd, this drive insane
Men of intellect causing so much pain
Why, oh why is it so very hard
For the power hungry men who hold the cards
To comprehend, to understand, the futility of war
Just a short term win, showing future the door
In wars, there's never a winner at all
Just a loser subdued, as a nation falls
While the aggressor struggles just licking the wounds
Conjuring up stories explaining the countless tombs
Oh to tell an orphan why the state is such
Why his father and mother were just blown to dust
Or a defenceless couple with burdens to carry
That the apple of their eye is but a distant memory
Feeling heavy, I look around with a weeping heart
For a solitary reason why we play this part
No winners just losers, innocent casualties untold
War is God's clear sign we have lost all control
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