There ain’t no glory in abortion
Playing with the forceps
Mutilating life
While you’re riding your high horses
The need for reinforcements
Rile up the forces
Just to chuck a Molotov
Upon your neighbor’s doorstep
Watching the inferno
Seeing it as victory
Violence on the innocent
To bloody up your history
Exalted adulations
In protests that mirror bigotry
The symmetry resounding
Your devotions lack validity
A mock upon equality
All animals amongst the zoo
I watch the circus acts
Giving credit where credit is due
A coat of many colors
In a spectacle for all to view
Until hysteria is lost
Leaving nothing left to pursue
Nothing ever changes
You fall straight back into the pits
As a victim in the mindset
And an endless need to (bĭch)
Woe the status quo
We always know what we will get
With hopes so low to cope
You don’t live with any regrets
Right back to your masters
Panting like a dog
Drooling over scraps
How so easily you’re bought
Only seeing color
When you’re looking for applause
Only wanting change
When the noose is in a knot
Constantly offended
Yet never by yourselves
So no one speaks against you
For your hatred can’t be quelled
With no hope for forgiveness
There’s no need to be compelled
To ever try to save you
For you’ll always live in hell
Could have broke the habit
Could have chose to change
Instead you have identified
Where life is not embraced
Sauntering in anguish
Communion with your rage
While the flames dance before you
Outshining your disgrace
Soon your neighbor’s house will crumble
Its embers will turn to ash
And the war within the streets
Will leave its scars in aftermath
Where tensions were misguided
But you didn’t fail to act
And now, where you find your feet
Are but the same old worn paths
© HeartOfBabel
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- Comment from author about the poem: Far too often, when society rages, fueled by anger and hatred, it is a force that acts without thought nor concern for innocence. Much like the issues that they rage against, they become the violence, they become the injustice, and they show that they are no better then that which they rage against. Nothing but the same empirical actions, violence begot violence begot violence. Thus, the cycle continues, nothing changes, and we are all left worse for wear.
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A measured poetic write as is your norm – thanks HoB.
We are in self fulfilling prophesy, slippery slope, spiral of violence territory here…
Trouble is, I’m not sure there are any solutions other that provide social conditions within a State which will minimize conflict.
And internationally???
As a individual, I can assure you I wouldn’t trust myself to solve any problem that pertains to billions of people. But, in my personal belief, I believe empire is often the problem, which cunningly crafts itself to be the solution, to inevitable vanity and more issue. And I will be honest to say that it is evident only in perspective. If one does not share the same perspective, one’s solutions and ideals can differ drastically. But luckily, even with differing perspectives, we do have history that can attest/contest belief vs reality.
But there could be a valid argument that foreign intervention is the reason in which international issues are existent in the first place, as well as issues on a local standpoint, that they are instigated through a system designed to feign humanity. Where your nation’s government intervened on a foreign level, it is easy to see how that intervention could be viewed as hostile actions by surrounding nations. But, if the nation’s government refrains from intervention, if another nation is trying to cause issues, there is very little to support for any form of hostility. If your nation is merely a nation that interacts through honest and free trade, you naturally form a bond of service towards one another, whereas if you force welfare on another country, you fortify its dependence and stifle its growth, preventing independence. And it is the same for individuals within the Nation as well. But, however complex the issues seems to be, the hopeful element is that society is not static, and every empire eventually falls.
Books like: “America’s Great Depression”, “The Origins of the Federal Reserve” or “For A New Liberty” (all) by Murray N. Rothbard paint differing perspectives, and if you haven’t ever read any of them, I certainly suggest you do. I’d start with “For A New Liberty”, which can be read right from the Mises Institute, as a free downloadable PDF or even audiobook. Because ultimately, it is a diversity of knowledge that solves these issues. Because how can there be conflict with understanding and moral pressure?
Can I give all that some thought and then get back to you?
But don't anticipate a big flash of enlightenment - more likely a damp squib.
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