ALL WE KNOW IS WAR
Where the eagle flies past tall trees and cliff faces those
below never know until the screeching shadow sounds a warning too fast go to ground
or be fodder for the missiles talons. Death comes too easily to them of living
families with so many species of new made dead flesh eaters flying amidst this ancient old
world's creatures.
And when in the arms of angels, the many dead with gray faces, blood streaked by seraph tears as they rise to an unseen life bequeathing God to lay the young at the feet of that Holy Spirit, So that the holy being may too weep and cleanse them of their dying pains and lost dreams.
No living being is insulated from dying and we have wedged ourselves so far apart that neither curse, blessing nor any tears shed by man nor spirit will mend the rends we have allowed to come screeching out of the sky to divide us, kill, us will ever allow for peace again.
It is easier to blindly hate than see a way to amity and common regard, to understand who it is who is our true enemy, for as there are angels there a demons and as there are good and kind men on any side there are wicked with stolen might as well who will fight for a moment, in a swiftly passing histories spot light hell.
In every field from Flanders to unknown mass catacombs commanders for their own glory to save, have easily sent many a future hope to the grave. We are so wise and benevolent as we send our armament shrieking down upon a population with no place of salvation except in the arms of angels who weep over them as they rise to take the dead to lay at their father’s feet that he too may have the chance over his children to weep.
© M Durfee
And when in the arms of angels, the many dead with gray faces, blood streaked by seraph tears as they rise to an unseen life bequeathing God to lay the young at the feet of that Holy Spirit, So that the holy being may too weep and cleanse them of their dying pains and lost dreams.
No living being is insulated from dying and we have wedged ourselves so far apart that neither curse, blessing nor any tears shed by man nor spirit will mend the rends we have allowed to come screeching out of the sky to divide us, kill, us will ever allow for peace again.
It is easier to blindly hate than see a way to amity and common regard, to understand who it is who is our true enemy, for as there are angels there a demons and as there are good and kind men on any side there are wicked with stolen might as well who will fight for a moment, in a swiftly passing histories spot light hell.
In every field from Flanders to unknown mass catacombs commanders for their own glory to save, have easily sent many a future hope to the grave. We are so wise and benevolent as we send our armament shrieking down upon a population with no place of salvation except in the arms of angels who weep over them as they rise to take the dead to lay at their father’s feet that he too may have the chance over his children to weep.
© M Durfee
8.20.2014
Nuke. Destroy. Control. Possess. Nuke the land, destroy hope, control your actions, possess all that is worldly as that IS what God will want to know at the pearly gates...
ReplyDeleteThe only question worthy of an answer upon dying Shadow is do you believe you did more good than harm? As we live individually nothing else matters.
Deleteperhaps needing god to be on one side or our side is part of the problem...or thinking that god thinks like us...yeah, kinda glad that god is not like us, and we only a pale reflection....
ReplyDeleteI agree Brian, God is neutral in the affairs of men, death though is a spiritual moment though. I think our reflections are becoming more opaque with each passing day, much to our loss.
Delete"For God so loved the world...." If only we were on God's side than we would weep for the fallen too.
ReplyDeleteIf we were all on God's side regardless of what religion we boxed ourselves in with, no one would weep again for them who are brutally disposed of Calvin. The older I get the more I detest "religion" as a set of creeds rather than a way of life. Which by the way is the original meaning of the word, religion.
Deletesometimes i wonder if i'd be better off not knowing any of this continues to happen and instead just take in the tall trees and laughing children around me.
ReplyDeletei hope my small contribution to kindness and honor helps in ways i will never know.
love
kj
Ignorance may be bliss, but then so is a foll's paradise kj. Of course any kindness in any part of the cosmos has great effect.
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