A Short History of the Human Race
2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War 1. While it
is only right that we should remember all those who fought and died for world
peace along with millions of unsung others caught up in the conflict one way or
another, we should perhaps reflect upon how various socio-cultural-religious
divides have caused conflicts through the ages, and continue to do so.
If wars
are all about winning the peace, remembering that has to be making sure peace prevails, surely? Or what has it
all been for, apart from killing innocent people, greasing the palms of arms
dealers, promoting political rhetoric and profiling humankind’s inhumanity
towards its own? [World leaders of all socio-cultural-religious persuasions,
please note.]
When will they every learn? When we ever learn...?
This poem is a villanelle.
A SHORT
HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE
Coursing
centuries,
blood of
angry ancestors
cancerous
war cries
Wherever
they rise,
venom of
our adversaries
coursing
centuries
Kingdoms,
dynasties,
playgrounds
for predators’
cancerous
war cries
A
pot-pourri of lies
camouflaged
in scriptures
coursing
centuries
Socio-political
policies
(sovereign
ears and eyes)
cancerous
war cries
Drawing
on prejudice’s
bottomless
well of tears;
coursing
centuries,
cancerous
war cries
Copyright
R. N. Taber 2010
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