Wednesday, May 7, 2008

WHO ARE WE HELPING?

If we are all connected
Part of the same
Then what is war but self-sabotage?
What I do to my enemy I do to myself
There is no reason big enough
To make a war right
To ask the young to do things and see things
No one should have to do or see

How will those who come back be whole again
After they have been taught to kill
To kill or be killed
To accept it as all in a day's work?

Today's wars kill more than soldiers
Kill the armed and the unarmed
Families at meals
Teenagers on bikes
Vendors in the markets
Mothers nursing babies
Children at play

Think of those faces
Looking at you
Asking you why

What good have we done?

War destroys people in more ways
Than by bullets or bombs
If we who are safe at home
Had to spend one day with our soldiers
Had to see what they see
See what they do
We would say stop!
Nothing is worth this devastation
This savagery
This blood.

Stop!
Just stop