War Is…

Syria (2012)
War Is…
Blind Man at the Gate

War is stupid.
War is wrong.
War is impatience.
War is song…
Made silent.

War is hate.
War is haste.
War is rape.
War is waste…
Of precious life.

War is murder.
War is money.
War is pride.
War is profit…
Woe the profiteers!

War is old.
War is told.
War is gold.
War is sold…
To remorseful buyers.

War is swords.
War is tanks.
War is bombs.
War is banks…
Of filthy lucre.

War is Auschwitz.
War is Hiroshima.
War is Nagasaki.
War is humanity…
Hanging by a string.

War is Hell.
War is Hades.
War is Sheol.
War is Gehenna…
Valley of the dead.

War is seen.
War is obscene.
War is famed.
War is declaimed…
By the Christ.

War is named.
War is shamed.
War is sham.
War is banned…
By the cross.

War is ancient.
War is always.
War is ever.
War is over…
If you want it.

War is Cain.
War is cruel.
War is crucifixion
War is cancelled…
With resurrection.

BZ

From time to time I write poems.
But I never try to write them.
They just come to me…
Unbidden and unbeckoned.
They insist on being written.
This one intruded on a gloomy afternoon.
This is my only apology.

(The artwork is Syrian Civil War by Chris Lockhart.)