Warfare

Warfare

A word with implications,
Afflicting many nations,
A darker side to humans,
A side we can’t forget,

Warfare keeps on spilling
across the world and filling
the hearts of its victims
with fear, pain and woe,

Europe’s war, a beast
of economic foundings,
A war where we see bankers,
aggressors to us all,

In Asia tensions mounting,
Koreans or Iranians,
To see a peaceful outcome,
A hope, but hope in vain,

Syria’s tyrant leader,
A stain upon the people,
Greater shame for nations
Who sit upon their hands,

Conflict looms and haunts us,
A daemon in the closet,
An exorcism needed,
For harmony to thrive.