Ceasefire
"They deserve the right to self-defense.
We will not allow a ceasefire."
Since this war has commenced,
Let us do what we desire.
What about the right to peace?
What about the right to clean water?
What about the right to cease
War-making and all this slaughter?
Deaths greater than all current wars combined,
The vast majority being children.
Yet, you let yourself go fatally blind
While death and destruction are building.
Other countries try for a solution,
But peace to you is a foreign concept.
They try to start a revolution,
But you shut them down, you can't accept it.
You deny it while protests go global.
You deny it while hospitals explode.
You deny it while you stand on that pedestal.
You deny it while blood drips and flows.
War crime? We couldn't care less!
Those bastards can fend for themselves.
No matter how big of a mess,
We can sit here peacefully as it dwells.
How dare you sit back and watch
As their entire worlds crumble to ashes?
How dare you take glee in taking it up a notch
As the countries light like matches?
You think you're in charge of the planet,
But you don't act like a leader, no matter how dire.
But that can change, can't it?
All we ask for is a ceasefire.
About this poem
The wars will not cease... where is that long-awaited ceasefire we all wanted?
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Written on November 05, 2023
Submitted by yourneighborhoodviolinist on February 10, 2024
Modified by yourneighborhoodviolinist on February 10, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,206 |
Words | 256 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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