In a world divided, nations collide

As missiles fly and borders close

Citizens suffer, buildings crumble

Hospitals overwhelmed, doctors stumble

 

Ideologies clash, like stormy seas

Borders shift, with each decree

Famine and strife, the price we pay

For leaders blinded by their own sway

 

The innocent pay, as wars decree

Orphaned and maimed, their spirits free

Buildings crumble, as bombs rain down

The wounded cry, as hope drowns

 

The elite, in bunkers safe

Surveying the carnage with unseeing eye

While common folk, beneath the rubble lie

Their blood and dreams, a muddy puddle

 

Educated minds, once held such sway

Now branded criminals in the cruelest of plays

But knowledge knows no bounds, nor war

It lives on, in the hearts of those who care

 

It's not religion, nor greed or need

That drives this madness, but our inability to heed

The words of peace, the words of love

The words that could, if only we'd all embrace above

 

So mark these words, remember well

The day will come, when we must all farewell

The darkness of war, the hate and strife

And choose instead, the path of life

 

For in the end, it's not the nations

That matter most, but the common man's salvation

A world united, where all can thrive

Where love and learning, not war, are alive