A tribute to war- A poem

A tribute to WAR

Why do men have to go to war?

Why do they have to drift so far?

What is the point that they want?

Or is it the power that they flaunt?

No matter what, no matter how

The price paid, is not enough for now

Whether its victory or it is defeat

Futures will burn in infernal heat

Only the dead have seen the end

No matter how much we try and pretend

There will be defeat on every side

A defeat, no victory will ever hide.

People aren’t good, they aren’t bad

So how can one be happy while the other is sad

And when the raw reality uncovers

It’s more tragic than two parting lovers

All for what and what for all

Wasted for nothing, the brave will fall

Do not the brave also suffer?

Times like these are a lot rougher

“Tough times don’t last, tough men do”, they say

What for by the way?

To fight for one more day?

Men are not coward, they aren’t brave

Ask the soldier who lies in that unmarked grave

He didn’t die for a country, religion, fancy or whim

But for the person next to him

Who’s a father, a son, a brother, lover, just like him

Wanted to live, as much as him

He died coz, his comrades died for him

And see alas… what have we got

Dead bodies, unclaimed, that rot

But still we won’t stop

Until that very last blood drop

Without giving peace a chance, how can we tell

That our heaven is better than any hell.

The father’s dead, so is the son

Have I lost or have you won

The dead will never know the reason why

What exactly for did they die

What’s there to take, for heaven’s sake

Why destroy, what we can’t make

Will there ever be an end

I am the enemy you killed, MY FRIEND.