What Price Is Enough For a Win

If I Stand for Blue and You Stand for Red, How Can We Both be Right? When Your Speech Evokes Hate, and Excites Those That Follow Your Message to Kill Me, and Those That Look Like Me. How Is This Just or Right? You Say You Stand for God, and Many Believers Seem to Follow Your Voice, But Where Does The Good Book Say To Kill Without a Cause? IF You are Right and I am Wrong, Then My Voice Will Fade into The Night, Like a Small Pebble Sinking in a Large Pond or Lake. But Let Your Yes BE Yes, and Your No BE No. Why Do They Seem To Change With The Rising And Sinking of the Tide? I Am But One Small Voice and Can Only Speak For ME, But I Want Peace, Love, and Unity. Will The Ends Truly Justify the Means? Does One Really Need To Tear ME and All Others Down, So That You can Rise? Will The Broken Lives, Careers and Reputations, Be Able to Be Repaired by the End of November? Will I Want to See Or Speak to You, My Neighbors or Family Members Ever Again After They Have Shredded My Life Today? If You Want Peace, IF You Want Unity, and a Future Where Both You and I Can Live Together, Then There Must Be a Better Way. What Are You Fighting For? Notches On a Belt, Wins in a Column, or Merely Your Place At the Top of the Heap, At Any Cost? I ask You Who Will Be Left To Pick Up The Pieces, If All Lives Are Broken In The Wake Of Your Passing? Sincerely, Paul Cumberbatch Author Paul Cumberbatch (September 30th , 2020)