Why My Lord Vii
Why, my Lord?
Why we cannot live in peace?
Why do we think it is right to wage war against our neighbors?
To still their land?
To burn their houses?
To kill their children?
Why, my Lord?
Why do we repeat the same mistakes for thousands of years,
When we do see clearly that violence begets violence, and
Death does beget death?
Why my Lord?
Why are we so blind as not to see the light of your truth?
So deaf as not to hear the thunder of your wise words?
So insensitive as not to sense the pain of our fellow men?
So unfeeling as to remain indifferent before:
Their suffering
Their grief
Their agony, and
Their devastation?
For how long, my Lord?
For how long should humanity endure hatred?
For how many more millennia should Man allow the aversion rule,
Before he understands that your divine command to
Love one another is the only solution for him in peace to live?*
© Demetrios Trifiatis
21 May 2021
* Dedicated to all innocent victims of war conflicts around the world.
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