Could we have some peace? by Adewale Sobowale

We won’t need fireworks;

With various wars;

Every day getting worse;

In our crazy wild world:

Year approaching embers;

Climaxing in December;

If we’re lucky;

We’ll get turkey:

Otherwise;

We’ll be war-weary!

Conflicts –

here

there

near, and

hither:

Farms are vandalized;

Homes are ravaged:

People out to refugeedom –

When not into martyrdom –

Into lands where they might get freedom:

In those lands;

Wars, wars and wars

make accommodation scarce

food too is insufficient:

Our world’s so poor;

In peaceful conflict management:

Almost every conflict;

Degenerates into war:

We hardly discuss;

Okay…sorry!

We do,

with bazookas and air raids;

and ultimate fear of nukes

with threat of Armageddon:

Conference tables are broken;

We are tone-deaf

We can’t hear the harmonious symphony of peace;

We have willingly decided to enjoy;

A deathly monotony –

the rat-a-tat music of guns:

If this continues;

We certainly wouldn’t need

Fireworks at Christmas:

Our kids have been militarized

While being fed a taste of the action

On our battlefields!

@ as 121424