The sun is receding from the sky, <br />Which is now painted a deep crimson red <br />But the blood of bodies lying, left to die <br />Have filled this red sky with unease and dread <br /> <br />For, a few hours ago, a battle was fought <br />One side was victorious, the other was mercilessly defeated <br />But the value of human life came to nought <br />Jesus’ maxim, “Love thy neighbour” was severely dented <br /> <br />Among the battered bodies, a soldier rises from the ground <br />With great discomfiture, and holds his bruised knee <br />He looks around at the destruction and carcasses strewn all around <br />And it is only then that he starts crying inconsolably <br /> <br />For he is all alone, in this desolate picture of heartache and grief <br />He starts looking at one bloody corpse after another <br />For his friends and comrades, with whom his association was brief <br />And then he, with watery eyes, looks at the body of his brother <br /> <br />His brother had just joined service, he had not served in the regiment long <br />But Fate and Death selected him, and played a cruel joke <br />With his brother, with whom the soldier would sometimes sing a song <br />And when catching him rob apples red-handed, his ribs he would gently poke <br /> <br />It is only now that the lonely soldier realizes <br />How utterly futile it is to fight a war! <br />He surveys the dead fathers, sons and brothers of all sizes <br />He regrets his mistake, the rest of the world he wants peace for <br /> <br />And then he decides to do something in this endeavour, there and then <br />He will preach to the world the foolishness of battles <br />He does not exactly know how, where and when <br />But nobody can stop a man’s resolve, when his conscience rattles <br /> <br />War is NOT a necessary evil, it can be stopped <br />Peace and dialogue have never hurt Mother Earth <br />For it is better, than to have bodies mercilessly chopped <br />That, to a new happy world, we give a grand new birth<br /><br />RONY PATRA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-futility-of-war/
