RE: Armistice Day
November 11, 2018 at 10:17 am
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2018 at 10:46 am by Brian37.)
No More Room, By Brian37
Our local thought
Always short sighted
Heros die
All get knighted
Population boom
Makes it null
To kill more
And what for?
The globe not flat
Not infinite
There is no victor
If our species forgets
Weapons of war
Are now far advanced
The push of a button
Our species could end
It is bad enough
We cannot agree
But at a minimum
The world should see
Mutual destruction
Is the age we live
No more room
To expand
Diplomacy
Is the only path
It is the only way
To honor the dead
It is not weakness to avoid war. It is not isolationism or nationalism either.
It is the realization that war is our species failure to understand we are the same species.
There was a time war was more affordable to the planet because our species population was smaller and our weapons not so destructive. But we are way beyond that, and far to big as a population, and far too interconnected with weapons that could make us go extinct.
Our local thought
Always short sighted
Heros die
All get knighted
Population boom
Makes it null
To kill more
And what for?
The globe not flat
Not infinite
There is no victor
If our species forgets
Weapons of war
Are now far advanced
The push of a button
Our species could end
It is bad enough
We cannot agree
But at a minimum
The world should see
Mutual destruction
Is the age we live
No more room
To expand
Diplomacy
Is the only path
It is the only way
To honor the dead
It is not weakness to avoid war. It is not isolationism or nationalism either.
It is the realization that war is our species failure to understand we are the same species.
There was a time war was more affordable to the planet because our species population was smaller and our weapons not so destructive. But we are way beyond that, and far to big as a population, and far too interconnected with weapons that could make us go extinct.
