Let It Go! Poem by William Jackson

Silence is
a deafening
response
to those
who hate.

Agitators screaming for
a long & bloody fight
cannot stand
when there is
no response.

But, the combatants
laugh long and loudly
when the venom
they have spewed
so readily provokes
a counter strike.

Kill them with kindness.
Let others fight a war
of hateful & pointless
words.

I do not know
who is right
in this war
of words.

I only know
that life and
breath are
being wasted
and no one
has won
anything.

I have read
the poems
of all the
combatants.

Each has written
poems of merit
and each,
each has written
anthems of hate.

Let it go!
Be friends.
Find something
kind to say
about each other.
Call a truce.
Start over.