Questions Of Honor
Questions of Honor
Look!
now they sleepbloodless warriors
pandemonium stilledagony slain tranquil
death sanctified in rigid cartesian rows
honored for their sacrifice and selfless valiance
laid to rest beneath mourning grasses
Ask!
where was the higher honor due thembefore war
are sacred vowsto be profanedto be misemployed
Why!
do once verdurous lives lay cold and pulseless
as spatters of red petalstearfully fall
families breathing wistful flowers
distilling ruewith lulling scents
Adjudge!
all menwho enact lies
dishonoring crossed graves
greed calibrating scales of injustice
bodies tilted high by tonnages of gold
Aurelian kissesvaulting wars riches
Do Not!
dishonor a warrior's willingness to die
for bravados mouth is a soldier's tomb
do not forsake truth and honorour only faithful ally
ask ten-thousand whysbefore one soldier dies
before the bugler's breathsounds death's lamenting cries
Think!
Contemplate war's fiery womb
hatredborn inextinguishable
good & evil indistinguishable
Look, what stillborn bones lie locked in battle
this fleshless monsterwe mis-named peace
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Matthew 6: 13... deliver us from "evil"
Evil as translated in 6: 13 is "Poneros" A name also attributed to Satan
Which means:"he is not content unless drawing others into the same destruction as himself"
(From Lexicon to the New Testament by Spiros Zodhiates, TH.D
"Soon
the world
won't have a rib intact.
And its soul will be pulled out."
A line from Vladimir Mayakovsky's 1917 poem, Call To Account
"They made a wasteland and called it peace" Publius Cornelius Tacitus