Weapons of Wonder
Weapons of Wonder
By Mark Stucky
If humans must wage war,
let it be upon our own evils.
Let there be genocide on
violence and divisiveness,
malice and indifference,
prejudice and inequity,
foolishness and falsehoods.
If humans must make weapons,
let us weaponize goodness,
arm ourselves with love,
beat peace into plowshares,
and (nearly) kill with kindness.
Such are the wonder weapons
we humans of the world want.
(First published in Valiant Scribe Literary Journal (Issue 2, Winter 2022) 45. See also my poems “Closed Community Prejudice (an Alphabetized Memoir),” “Firearm Requiem,” and “Hate Vacuuming.”)
(Photo from pexels.com/photo/pretty-brunette-using-a-bubble-gun-16380687.)
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