Decades of Death

This collection of poetry (in contrast to my Decades of Delight collection) is my “protest” at the brutal world we live in. The idea of capturing it in poetic form first came to me near the end of the 90’s and I thought to call it the Decade of Death because it seemed that no one decade could be more filled with hatred and violence man to man. I was wrong. Although the idea lay dormant for over 15 years the increasing horror of man’s actions has not.

Be clear; I do not believe it needs to be like this, but it is.

Yet, few seem to understand that the world cannot be repaired or changed by killing those who you disagree with.

War can never truly be “won”. In this modern day it has become more tragically evident that until you have killed every last one of your enemy, including every last one of their broader families and all their children, the war is not over.

It has now become an awful fact that if you annihilate all but even one child of the enemy, you will still have an enemy; and that single remaining enemy will probably nurture a greater “cause” than those you fought before, due to the very fact that you have murdered the people he loved. This applies as equally to terrorists as it does to those who sincerely hope to eliminate terrorism.

It cannot be done through killing!

It can only be done through love!

We should constantly recall that all combatants are actually human. God’s creation. We should treat them as such.

Enjoy the read – make the world a better place; every day.

Andipien