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 Harry Sweeden. My life in verse.

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False witness...


You bare only false witness to what history has taught us
claiming that "your war" will bring us to peace
while day after day after day… men are falling
and our world is forever more to grieve.
History has shown that war is no answer
for in any war the war makers… lie,
while young men and women give all, oh so freely
and their families can do nothing but cry.
How can a bullet find a path to our happiness…?
when we have… but to open our eyes
the beauty around us so fast disappearing
while claiming its war we despise?
Lessons should be learned but it seems always we're failing
for the path that we walk is for gain
never fearing the bloodshed so far from our doorstep
nor feeling the heart wrenching pain.
Universities and Law-Lords all staking their own claim
for the right to lead on mankind
their brains are so big, but never seeing destruction
it seems that their brains make them blind!?
Blind to the heartache that all mankind suffers
while discussing each scenario in full
‘5 million dead and 20 million more starving'
it's just another one of their tools.
Money has reigned and led mankind to conflict
yet still we all worship her name
oil and gold and diamonds for envy…
it is always and forever the same.
So if war is the course then say war is for money
to stake a claim on what you have not…
no more lying to reason why our young ones should follow
for history should be never ... forgot!!!


 







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