We humans
Hearts filled with greed
Minds filled with ambitions
Waging war against one another
For a great conquest
For the greater good
To solidify the powerful position
To be considered more superior than the others
To be remembered by people
To be written in history books
To leave behind a great legacy
What matters when you are gone
Only to be viewed as an aggressive tyrant
A dictator oblivious to the harm of war
Letting the civilians bear the consequences of your decisions
The soldiers go fight
Lives are lost
Families are incomplete
Homes are destroyed
Boom explosion everywhere
All the atrocities committed
Bang gunshots fired at anyone
The innocents suffer
In the 21st century
We are educated in history
Yet we repeat the same mistakes
When will we learn from it?
That there is nothing great about war
And we get nothing great from it
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That first verse made me go ouch! The largest conflict we know of World War 2 was not all hearts full of greed or ambition. One nation guilty of those traits recruited two other nations of similar ambition but the rest of the world stood firm where they could to resist the onslaught. Since then the 'west' has not been to war for greed or ambition but rather to defend or pacify.... though with questionable outcomes i'll grant you LOL.
Yes I understand that but I feel there are some hidden purposes when countries come to aid. My view is that no human is good and we all do seem to want something to ourselves.
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