When is enough enough,
When is the going just too tough.
Why do people have to die
Forever in the ground to lie.
Are the spoils worth all the pain
When the path is kill and maim.
Is barren land worth just so much
Now deprived of human touch.
Do fatherless children justify the cost
Memories of a generation lost.
Weeping mothers by the score
Adding every day far more.
Politicians acting blind
To the misery resigned,
Just numbers on a sheet
Conscious only of defeat.
Pride and hubris win the day
Reason not allowed to sway.
Yet solutions need be found
Striving to be clear and sound.
Calmer voices must assist
For further slaughter to desist.
The way forward won't be fast
Searching for a peace to last.
Neither side will win outright
Time for discourse not brute might.
Russia needs restore prosperity
Ukrainians live without temerity.
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A poem of war protest that rings out for all to hear. Very nice
Thanks for the kind words. Sometimes poetry cuts through far more than bushels of prose. If only more people did not chose one word tweets and took the time.
Thankyou
At the moment for Ukrainian people to have peace means they have surrendered, for Russian people to have peace would mean they have just been allowed to take a democratic and free country. Your right that no one will win outright,but a peace deal should be for Ukraine as they were the ones invaded, not Russia or America's gain, enjoyed the read
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