It’s sad to think that humankind

is so resolved to be so blind

to all the people dead or maimed

and all the misery that’s blamed

on war.

I cannot for my life conceive

how all these years men still believe

so strongly in their faiths that they

continue wasting lives away

on war.

It certainly is sheer despair

and lack of education there

and leaders who’ll say anything

and not the followers who bring

on war.

Without a Holy War to fight

the Middle Eastern leaders might

have no direction to their lives

and so their focus, thus, arrives

on war.

On war the heads of state get rich

while soldiers dying in a ditch

are told their countries they defend

when, really, heads of state depend

on war.

I wonder if Allah today

were here to see his children’s way

of following the things he taught

would he be glad his teachings brought

on war?

The children of all prophets must

discover that all faiths are just

and not blame faith ‘ere it’s too late

but learn to blame their Holy Hate

on war.

I’d like to cause a world-wide lapse

of memory and then perhaps

the soldiers, thus, could not recall

the hate that caused their minds to fall

on war.

It seems that only time will bring

the bell that someday has to ring.

For we are only but lost souls

until the death bell finally tolls

on war.