see that woman <br />flung over her son's dead body <br />howling from the depths <br />of her womb <br /> <br />what has she <br />to do with war <br />or war with her? <br /> <br /> <br />* * * <br /> <br /> <br />if all the mothers in the world <br />denied war in their mind <br />and in their speech <br />what would happen <br />in the mind of men? <br /> <br />what is the powerful <br />compared with the power? * <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />(* ancient belief: man is the power-ful, woman the power)<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0108-two-poems-about-war/
