Why Such Waste?

Why Such Waste?

Daily at our doors,
Bombings of many floors,
Attacks in the night, clearly out of sight,
Causing great fright, enemies with sheer might.

The world watches in despair,
Wondering who will show they care,
Is anything about this war fair?
How much can we all bear?

Sights like this give us pain,
To know that people hate with such disdain,
The world watches with disgust,
As buildings and human corpses lie in the dust.

For the normal human being,
At a loss and far away,
It seems so easy to feel at ease,
Knowing the war is growing like a disease.

Covid, too, spreading left and right,
War and disease are signs we are close to midnight.
The world clock ticks closer to the very end,
Can we prevent this downward trend?

Our hearts cry out for mercy,
Better days we pray for all to see,
People muddled in clouds of deception,
Confusing clear perception.

"Fake" news is what some want to say.
Truth we long for to know the right way.
Until this war comes to an end,
We must continue to pray and send,

Not weapons to kill more people on either side,
But words of peace and prayers for healing tide,
To wash ashore to the farthest parts,
That people would come to their senses in their hearts,

For the sake of young and old, truly the future at risk,
Requires a strong dose of clarity that is brisk,
To awake one and all to heed the call,
Lest we burn in flames from our greatest fall,

We must all join hands for one and all,
Young and old, tall or small,
Remembering where we've been and come from,
Creating a better world into which we can become.

Feeling so small, just one person in it all.
Affected like everyone else facing this thing so tall.
Feeling like we can do nothing backed up to a wall.
Into a hole we are tempted to crawl.

But if we inspire others to a greater call,
It can spiral into blessings that snowball!
Loving our neighbors, near and far!
Building better days for everyone, near and far!

We need courage to trust and build again,
A new world with healing hope and then,
Realize that no one is without sin,
If we looked honestly from within.

There is no room for judgment,
Lest we find ourselves in the same predicament.
Only with a hand of mercy extended graciously,
Will mend the hurt perpetuated generationally.

Come one, come all, let's come along,
Come one, come all, let's sing a new song,
Overcome the evil of past wrongs,
Realizing that revenge will never right any wrongs.

People created who can share,
Having the capacity to truly care,
For friends and family and future bear,
We need new courage and love to care

Bear witness to our posterity,
Building a better world within each city.
We need new positivity,
Inspiring like electricity!

Love, faith and hope--eternal gifts we need,
Like a new season in the ground to seed,
Pull out all evil from within, that terrible weed,
See a new crop the world feed!

Hungry children, young and old,
Nothing left--nothing to be sold,
No clothes to wear in the night so cold,
Living with dirt, surrounded by mold,

Death in the night all so cruel,
Why must we fight as if to duel.
A needless conflict trying to prove,
Risking everything is a bad move.

Repent one and all--great and small,
A message from heaven to us does call,
We will all stand in judgment to recall,
How we lived in the midst of the fall.

Did we accept wisdom or reject her words?
Did we heed warnings of the dangers of using swords?
Those who live by their swords, die by them, too.
Shouldn't we drop our weapons before they kill us, too?

Dropping bombs on others can not be right,
Because all things in the end will come to light,
Who killed who will be known in plain sight,
The Almighty who knows every secret blight.

No one is innocent, no one is right.
All have sinned, fallen short of what's right.
We all need forgiveness for this dark cold night,
We all need to hope for a dawning new light.

Stop pointing fingers claiming who is wrong,
Realize that we too have been so wrong,
To a world that's broken and needs a new song,
Can be move forward with love to right what's wrong?

For the sake of all humanity, and all living beings,
We have come to these very dark scenes,
Do we really understand what life on earth truly means?
How fragile we have become to destroy all living beings?

Nuclear war and total destruction is not what we need,
It is the final judgment if we callously do not heed,
These are not games people should play indeed,
All the world should not end with this greed!

What more to say to this end?
Enough has been said, dear friend,
Let's drop the accusations that bend,
The truth that anyone is innocent--why pretend?

The reality is we have all made bad mistakes,
Why kill more people and raise the stakes.
Spouting lies of dead people being "fakes"
Creating pools of blood like red lakes.

Back down from high horses,
Take new actions and courses.
Avoid such pride and proud resources,
Such blindness perpetuates the negative forces.

We long to see better days to come,
With clear reflection on how to become,
A people with knowledge, wisdom and grace,
To avoid terrible mistakes and embarrassing disgrace.

Let's rise to a higher call,
Avoid such a miserable fall,
Accept that we are  small,
In the end only together, can we grow tall.