When will we learn that war’s not good
For getting things under control?
That fighting and fear are poor excuse
When innocent lives are the toll.
No one has ever battled to get
Justice for all those involved.
No one has died in the fierce to and fro
Where the problems are finally resolved.
We’re led to believe that might is the source
Of bringing our wants into line,
But when it is used it rarely achieves
The stuff that we want to refine.
Hostility, anger, denial and pain
Are often the reason we fight
But rarely the answers that we truly seek
Are found in the use of our might.
More likely the winners pay such a high cost
That their triumph is muted at best,
And the loser will seek to discover a time
When the winner is put to the test.
The seesawing nature of war is the truth
That humans are prone to ignore,
Returning to violence time after time
In hopes of re-settling the score.
Yet God in God’s wisdom, has offered us peace
As a way to attain common gain,
To meet each one’s need, to save each one’s pride,
Without war and fighting and pain.
It means we must think, communicate more,
Seek ways that will bring us relief,
Examine our needs, forgive each one’s faults
And allow for our varied belief.
So if we accomplish the tasks that we set,
And make the hostilities cease,
We just might discover that God knows the way
To justice, to mercy and …
Peace,
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