Why This War

 

Why hath we these wars

Who doth bring nought but melancholy

Lots dead, lots behind bars

Instead of the time to be jolly

 

Blood spewed all o’er the earth

Hot metal flying above our head

Bodies being used to stir the hearth

Air filled with smell o gunpowder and lead

 

World leaders, ignorant of the aftermath

Using war as an excuse to satisfy their ego

When ‘tis the common people who hath

The most tears to flow

 

Lovers and orphans, their cries echo

Through the streets, the alleyways and round the bend

Nobody to give a care, for wars, they come, they go

But when doth this pillaging ever end?

 

Sorrow and despair, ‘tis the way o the world now

Death and destruction surrounds us all

Folks they want change, but how?

National governance itself is in downfall

 

Leaders be paranoid as hell

Ought they not know what hath they caused?

For ‘tis as simple as show and tell

Life itself hath been paused

 

Parents, partners, the son and the daughter

Tears for their brave kin they shed

The world echoes with the silent laughter

Of those monsters who profit from the bloodshed

 

When will the need for war terminate

To find its meaning erased in totality

The people hath become desperate

For the life they dream, become reality