Wars

All around the Earth,
this world of so much worth,
people are fighting everywhere,
no one thinks that things are fair.

No matter where you go,
way up high or down below,
people talk the rage of war,
but do they know what they're fighting for?

If someone wants the right to live,
freedom is something that you should give,
but fighting for power and meaningless land,
is something that war does not demand.

The talk of peace is only sometimes heard,
most people start with war as their word,
they do not think of hurt or pain,
only the things that they may gain.

Their only goal is to win it all,
to lose means their army will fall,
if the goal they have will not achieve,
from the war they fought they have to leave.

And all through time the world repeats,
to fight each and every war it meets,
not many learn no matter if they win or lose,
that fighting is not the choice to choose.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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