war always wins

War always wins

( Manchester bombing May 2017 )

Let us all return to the old ways, a time now sadly lost,

Live out each and every new day, not worry of the cost,

Take ourselves back in time, when we had no need to hurry,

All about seemed fine, with please, thank you and sorry!

Turn the clock fully around, more than a hundred years,

Before instant news was found, as well as instant tears,

To when you had a row, you had to walk across the land,

And on the way somehow, the walk curbed your angry stand,

When it was man to man, each stood his chosen ground,

Both did rightfully stand, shook hands when done, real proud,

Yet this has not been so, the poor have, through ages paid,

The rich pull too or fro, soldiers in the ground are laid,

Armies go to fight, in foreign fields and places,

Bringing all their might, killing nameless faces,

While home is thought to be, untouched yet safe and sound,

No internet to see, whole cities flattened to the ground,

Yes please let us all return, to a time we knew no hate,

When all the bad we learned, would somehow seem too late,

When reporters had to go, to so many war torn lands,

It took a week to show, what they wrote with their own hands,

There is no going back, no way to turn that clock,

We have computers now that hack, and bombs instead of rocks,

To every corner of every land, religion organised and spread

Too many willing to lend a hand, to increase the numbers of the dead,

There is no going back, for there never was, a peaceful time,

Instant news was all we lacked, war was never something fine,

The less well-off always died, no matter near or far,

No government heard or tried, as long as they had their war,

So before we condemn one and all, blame a single race or creed,

No matter who started this brawl, hatred planted its seed,

And long before we ever knew, of such horrendous things,

We are so many, we are so few, and we bury all that war brings.