Poetic Verses
War
Tell me in a war, is there any real winner?
Does the process makes any situation any better?
All one can see as a result of this very costly and needless exercise
Is a lot of active and passive destruction and unfortunate demise.
Who could remember that period of Korea and Viet Nam
Now the focus is continuing in Iraq and also Afghanistan
The picture is the same and always oh so familiar
Destruction of cities, atrocities and expensive impact on the infrastructure.
This thing that is getting a real concern to me and almost everybody
Is the great increase in the number of casualties
Not only on the active fronts but that of those civilians
Their deaths is presenting a very serious problem.
Yes it is also a ploy by the most of those enemy forces
To come to the villages for cover and attacking purposes
Putting the civilians in dangers, some others once used little children
Whose innocence was a way for them to get their bombs in.
Even in peace time, there is not end to the grind
What about those field laced with lost land mines
One can see pictures of children happily playing in the fields
Only to detonate a mine, and feet get blown off at the knees
Then who can remember that war with the atomic bomb
Whose decay process is like a form of a continuum
Because there are still reports of persons from that area
Having birth defects and some people have leukemia or a lymphoma.
And who can ever remember the extent and that great range
Covered in that land by the herbicide employed name Agent Orange
It has left its traces there, on the handlers and one can see quite plainly
Some of those children born in that territory with some birth anomaly
What about soldiers who return home after an active duty
Are faced with problems both financially and psychologically
Then others who cannot adjust and encounter great difficulty
To adjust to a life that is totally devoid of anything military.
How can we ever measure the collateral devastation and destruction?
Sometimes war can bring uneasiness to other nations by extension
Because somewhere in the action there is a loss of brother, sister, father or son
Some family member, innocent civilians and children are made orphans.
Does the process makes any situation any better?
All one can see as a result of this very costly and needless exercise
Is a lot of active and passive destruction and unfortunate demise.
Who could remember that period of Korea and Viet Nam
Now the focus is continuing in Iraq and also Afghanistan
The picture is the same and always oh so familiar
Destruction of cities, atrocities and expensive impact on the infrastructure.
This thing that is getting a real concern to me and almost everybody
Is the great increase in the number of casualties
Not only on the active fronts but that of those civilians
Their deaths is presenting a very serious problem.
Yes it is also a ploy by the most of those enemy forces
To come to the villages for cover and attacking purposes
Putting the civilians in dangers, some others once used little children
Whose innocence was a way for them to get their bombs in.
Even in peace time, there is not end to the grind
What about those field laced with lost land mines
One can see pictures of children happily playing in the fields
Only to detonate a mine, and feet get blown off at the knees
Then who can remember that war with the atomic bomb
Whose decay process is like a form of a continuum
Because there are still reports of persons from that area
Having birth defects and some people have leukemia or a lymphoma.
And who can ever remember the extent and that great range
Covered in that land by the herbicide employed name Agent Orange
It has left its traces there, on the handlers and one can see quite plainly
Some of those children born in that territory with some birth anomaly
What about soldiers who return home after an active duty
Are faced with problems both financially and psychologically
Then others who cannot adjust and encounter great difficulty
To adjust to a life that is totally devoid of anything military.
How can we ever measure the collateral devastation and destruction?
Sometimes war can bring uneasiness to other nations by extension
Because somewhere in the action there is a loss of brother, sister, father or son
Some family member, innocent civilians and children are made orphans.
