Non-Violent War Poem by Ramakrushna Sahu

It is not to display
Deficiency or suffering
But nothing is allowed
without effort
Efficiency has to prevail
That is what it says

For need no war is violence
But for greed every action is a war
Animals are excused
For they don't complain
And there is no violence in their war
But how can man?

Defficiency is a creation of plenty
To push life forward
But men acquire and accumulate
Stick to plenty in order not to move
And defficiency becomes
A creation of human greed
So all his actions turn into a war

When the head is held high to grow
And the struggle to move forward
Towards light and knowledge
There is no violence in war
Against darkness and ignorance
But to stick to pleasure of death
Is more violent than a bloody war.