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Shadows of War [1]
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Date: 2023-10-09
At times like these, it is tempting to take sides and offer a plethora of rationalizations regarding the infinite wisdom of going to war and fill ourselves with a sense of righteousness ennobled by our grievances. And yet, the age-old song of violence and retribution gets played once again. And once again, humanity is infected with a bolus of rage and hatred that will ultimately get us nowhere. And once again, true human progress is thwarted.
Shadows of War
Darkness once again falls
heavily upon this tiresome human world.
Shadows of war
propelled by ridiculous dreams of dominance and empire
sustained by minds
unable to see the horrid future they project,
unwilling to embrace the pain and suffering
they inflict,
unreceptive to the laments of mothers
over the children forever lost to the shrill
call of bombs and bullets
as explosions rip through the fabric of neighborhoods,
unrepentant for the death they distribute
to the innocent like candy,
for all the blood and bones and carnage,
for all the wrecked lives and distorted hatred
injected into the future,
unable to embrace all of humanity as equals,
ever ready to crawl into bed
with hollow and pointless death.
Shadows of war,
a long and tiresome story
revisited again and again
the litany long,
the dark foreboding song always the same,
the list seeming endless,
stretching back
to the very beginnings of
civilization.
How long can Homo sapiens endure?
how long can the natural world
upon which we depend
sustain us?
when we choose
chaos over harmony
needless death and unimagined suffering
over love and life,
darkness over light,
stupidity over real intelligence
over and over again.
Darkness once again falls
heavily upon this tiresome human world.
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