Never A Gain

I’ve been asked to explain the words “Never A Gain”!

So I’ll limn it here plain, all that’s “Never A Gain”:

                              Death, destruction and pain define Never A Gain,

                              like a pale hurricane, warfare’s Never A Gain,

                              often wars steal terrain, plunder’s Never A Gain,

                              even wars on the wane, really Never A Gain,

                              over ten million slain, frankly Never A Gain.

                              Although diplomats feign (pretend’s Never A Gain) ,

                              and abuse might and main (thralldom’s Never A Gain),

                              trying tricks and chicane achieves Never A Gain.

                              Where the children have lain, voids are Never A Gain,

                              limber limbs torn in twain, doubly Never A Gain,

                              fearful famine, mundane, by God Never A Gain;

                              warriors say it’s humane though there’s Never A Gain.

                              Army hordes raising Cain exhume Never A Gain,

                              bloody battles, though vain, produce Never A Gain,

                              whether guns or cocaine, shots wreak Never A Gain;

                              though the dead don’t complain, dying’s Never A Gain.

                              Atom bombs from a plane bestow Never A Gain,

                              lethal neutrons aflame beget Never A Gain,

                              with a nuclear rain, all’s lost, Never A Gain.

                              In a sandy domain, victory’s Never A Gain.

                              Desert blood down the drain? A clot’s Never A Gain.

                              And though dunes will remain, a grave’s Never A Gain.

                              

                              Global war, so insane, provides Never A Gain,

                              whether Gaza, Ukraine, death deals Never A Gain.

                              In that graveyard domain, regret’s Never A Gain

                              and a soul’s reddened stain’s also Never A Gain.

Can we learn from the slain that war’s Never A Gain?

YES!!!

Since it’s Never A Gain... 

                                           well then, Never Again!