As lambs we are marching towards the slaughterhouse,
through blood and gore, forests, rocks and vast deserts’ sands,
since the dawn of man to satisfy lust and greed
whose cloak has always been woven with threads of want
or need. In the beginning, it was with bare hands,
then with wood and stone but since the time of bronze came
the sheer scale has been rising up in leaps and bounds
until the Little Boy gave us nuclear liberty.
(We must leave due blood and fame for the Fat Man too!)
Still our march towards the slaughterhouse never stops,
for the men in power need these wars to remain,
should God need the strength of men to defend His name!
So we march ahead and the crimson river too;
give birth to saints women, not generals, will you!
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I agree.
“give birth to saints women, not generals, will you!”
I will never understand how life is devalued. Some places in our world. Hunger and sickness is running rampart and no-one cared. USA will spend 1.2 trillion on war and little for the salvation of life.
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I agree! and that is sad. thanks for your review!
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You are welcome my friend.
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my pleasure!
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thanks a lot for sharing my works with your followers!
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You’re welcome. You’ve got interesting thoughts, and I like divergent thinking. It shows individuality. The fact that they’re poems just makes it a plus!
Keep writing!
– Ruth P.
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I am honored. I aspire to be a divergent too. – Amit.
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I think there’s no better way to be a divergent than to be a poet.
– Ruth P.
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thanks a lot for the kind endorsement!
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With a former army doctor for a father, and a brother in the army.. this poem touched me deeply.
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wow! my father happens to be a physician too (though civilian)… hopefully your prince and princess will grow up to be saints not generals! 😀
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thanks a lot!
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Amen…peace not war.
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Amen!
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thank you!
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