Black and White
I crave the end of war,
hoping to one day
open my eyes
to see that we no longer need
that desire to fight,
the thirst to control,
and the hunger
to kill a hole
carved inside us,
but it is fear
that determines
our choice
to live our lives
the way that we do.
We are afraid,
afraid always of what we don't understand,
afraid of those that stand out,
and fearing the lack of control
that we really have over the days
of our lives.
We are afraid.
If we stopped fighting,
could we accept
a world of peace,
a world united?
Is such a world
more than a dream?
Why must war
pave the road
to freedom,
to peace?
Why must we fight and die?
Are our lives only threads of history
to weave everything that we desire
into a future
that we continue to dream?
You asked me
why I don't believe in peace.
The answer is simple.
We'll always have war,
and there are times,
where war creates peace.
Black and White
by, Melissa R. Mendelson
clarissa mckone
Sun 25th Nov 2007 00:01
as in the case of WW2 it did create peace, it was a declaired war, it was needed and constitutional..in other words not an act of agression/tresson/terrorist invasion.Why we have war? many reasons,the makers of bombs and guns need cash flow, cant keep people working and stock pile the stuff up to heaven, can we?So you would need to look closely at who benifites from war. Its not the people fighting the war, its not their parents,or the people next door.Its the investors, the board of directors, the high rolling machines on both side of any conflict that CASH in! You cant force others into having a government that they are against from the very core of their being, that being religion. unfortunate as it is religion has so many times been the problem and not the solution. History is ripe with bullys of faith killing in the name of peace and their god.I say let God deal with it, he/she can fight it alone. as a god it would win. no need of our help in this matter.If the invasion is for say oil, even thought we are not and have not recieved any and our prices continue to climb, and we have been acused of warring for oil. Then why is the war costing us so much cash? By God our great grandchildren will still be paying for this invasion. Did you know we as Americans just paid off the spanish american war? TRUE was a tax in out phone bills till a few months ago. I do believe that war may indeed be with us forever, however if we cant afford it, we need to have the guts to get out of it. I read last week that the troups are going to run out of food, no bill has been passed to keep the war going. I read that the act of going a wall is up 80%, our boys know whats going on and its time to put an end to this act of terror on forgien soil. Bravo on the poem ...you got me going!