and; for all those who <br />preach to teach us why. <br /> <br />My Mom died, I was just 13 <br />Ain't no god that really cared, <br />Ain't that No reason why <br />Have me a girl friend to marry <br />am i gonna die? hey! <br />We're just like some other kids in love <br /> <br />Enlist, persist war games insist, <br />pinball action, winning scores, <br />bump the enemy, death, <br />the prize for hero'd glory? <br /> <br />Got caught in the draft in '44 <br />chilled, drilled and uni-formed <br />dog tagged us, a named number <br />No more of me a kid to slumber <br /> <br />Where we goin'...? Help us not <br />to think and blunder, at the sounds of <br />some canons, horrific thunder <br /> <br />My home town was B'klyn NY <br /> <br />'Please come back home soon' <br />my betrothed bride wrote....3 times daily, <br />'I love you all the very muches in the world ' <br /> <br />Cadence Count Soldiers! <br />Drill sergeant ordered <br /> <br />Left and right and left, <br />right and left and right <br />Had a nice girl when i left, <br />right and left and right <br /> <br />Marching robots; <br />made to brave as obeying <br />jelly-belly'd soldiers <br />for killing souls, god knowing <br />we never needing ever, to repent <br /> <br />'Why must there be war? ' <br /> <br />No use to kneel and pray. <br />nobody's listenin' anyway <br /> <br />'Take aim soldier! <br />You've not to reason why, <br />but just to kill or die' <br /> <br /> I often thought.... then <br /> <br />There are kids i had to hate to kill <br />and; also were taught to kill me' <br /> <br />Just Imagine; <br /> <br />if leaders threw an <br />idiotic war party and; <br />non of us kids ever came? <br /> <br />Having fortunately survived to age 79, <br />insightfully spirited <br />that inhuman war sacrifices <br />decent souls for unresolved <br />political differences <br /> <br />Love and Empathy, be the <br />Omnipotent celebrated <br />victory for - <br /> <br />Peace, goodwill and <br />world happiness <br /> <br />'Let it be, Let it be' <br /> <br />We need tune in for a <br />'60's 'Woodstock' Spiritual Revival <br /> <br />Heart 'Beat' we must; <br />for everlasting Peace, <br /> <br />All of humanity befitting of Love <br /> <br />We inevitably, will survive <br /> <br />10/15/2005<br /><br />Louie Levy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-who-war-it-may-concern/
