When will the dying ever stop?

And even when the guns are stilled

snug in their wake starvation comes

to bolster up the body count.

 

They starve, are shot, and blown to bits;

when will the dying ever stop?

The ruined land is drowned in blood

while all the world averts their eyes.

 

The dogs of war are off the leash,

no pity for the helpless hordes.

When will the dying ever stop,

for until then, nobody heals.

 

This hated holocaust of death

denied by those who hold the strings,

the puppet masters never care;

when will the dying ever stop?