Stop!

 

The sabres are rattling again,

Big hefty meat cleavers

That shrink flesh

And fry the soul,

I thought,

We thought this was done,

No more the battle

For whom has the biggest gun,

But it seems the powers

That be are once again

Playing a treacherous game,

A game we know

     Can never be won,

 

X on X off,

     Your turn to host the show

With an O for the obedience

Of the masses,

We’re getting skilled

In killing by the use of drones,

But even the pilots

Of the new buzz bomb

Can’t hide from

All things inter-continental,

And it’s getting so crazy it’s

Mental,

     The once fascist bomb

Now the talk of the West

And feared by the Asian,

When on Earth does it stop,

When on Earth are our leaders

To perpetuate peace??

 

     Time and time

Again we live under

Threat,

Time and time again

We’re courting death

Like we never give

A fuck for our fellow human

Beings,

     And there,

I see a child with gunshot

Wound to the head,

A gunshot wound

To us all

For a lost child

Is a lost hope,

     And she cries into

The arms of a GI

Who must wonder as all

Wonder,

Why?

Why in this day and age

Are we still

Proliferating war

Amongst each other

Like the money that it makes

Matters,

Like the winner

Can claim the higher

Ground for politics

And religion,

 

     The Ministry even told -

It’s an unwinnable war,

For the theology

A race of people are

Just not ready for,

But still despite

All trials of man

We have not yet

Harnessed dialogue

Amongst our peers -

Have not yet sold

To the Asian man

The reasons why

We muster all validity,

 

     We’ve tried our best

To influence the take

On rights of women

On rights of children,

But while flying flags

That claim democracy

In our own back yard

When it’s plainly obvious

We have problems;

     Just isn’t going to sell

Authentic reasons for change

No reason to claim

The West is the best no more

But there,

The East fairs no better too!

 

There are so many reasons

The World needs to come together,

For the Globe cannot

Manage all to live

While ethics dictate

The feuds of old,

     Be you American or

China in your eyes,

You need embrace

A change at the core

Of all your being,

We all need embrace the

Change to share a world

Made for all,

     And it’s not

Through the pontificating

Of the afterlife,

We are in the here and now

The here and now

Teetering close

To no futures,

No futures for all our

Children no matter

Creed or colour,

No future for all

     And it is so frustrating,

So damned fekking frustrating

That we all cannot reach

Those who sit

Idly within antiquity

And instil the sense of loss

For clinging onto

Values of old.

 

     We can win,

We can all win,

If we puncture

With all collective might

The tyres of the war machine

That goes round and round and round,

For you ask the GI

Who tends the wounded

Child sat upon his knee;

Does he really want the fight?

And though he’s loathed

To admit the fight for

Human rights is losing

Its momentum,

We just cannot go it alone

While a never ending

Queue of those declared

As enemy of The West

Lines up to seize a gun!

 

It’s in our Leaders that we trust,

It’s in our Leaders

We expect the truth,

But they seem so very far away

From the common man

Who talks the common sense

And walks the common ground

As soldier,

     We need cessation

Of the war,

We need the leaders haggling

Round the table not for

Who sits pretty in Gods eyes,

But for how they’ll share

The task of saving  the states

That cannot feed themselves,

 

     Warfare,

Is no vision of the future,

It is in the here and now

That takes away the future,

For futures sake pull

Away the grandiose designs,

Talk not upon religion

Talk not upon traditions

That cripple many folk,

Be you Taliban or al quaeda,

Be you Chinese Russian

African American or European,

The world is losing ground

While stubbornness

Declares each man a warrior,

While it’s plain to see

There’s a shrinking future

On horizons daubed with blood.

 

     Warfare takes away all futures,

Declare only that you’re human

Declare you have ‘All Earths’

Peoples interests at heart,

Sit around a table

Made only for good will,

And talk the common sense of peace.

 

Michael J Waite 21^st March 2013.