IF

Will repeat this poem because I need to ..

Think you, merely asking - might the moon die  

IF war was considered the answer to power, intolerance or or/and greed

and the first one took place Ages ago - surely it did not work

IF war is still considered such a great idea - the answer to everything -

why has it taken more than centuries of them to prove success

WHY do so many flags hang at half mast yet - around the globe 

historians have argued, always will argue, about the need for conflict

BUT there's no need for excuses, no explanation for orphans or missing 

limbs: the absence of converse and faith is more than obscure 

NOW we have drones to falter for seconds then - as if technological lava, 

continue to bleed our planet's beings as if invisible nothings

HUMANKIND - a tragedy Aliens name the ultimate plague. Who knows, perhaps WE need learn from 

Them OR -  fly into space an' play with it even more.

But think you, might the moon die?  

Reviews

[Amanda Renee]

Thank you for taking me on this beautiful trip between your first and last almost mirrored lines...

[emmajoygreen]

Thank you for visiting and sharing, Amanda

[Kady R.]

Hiii Emma!!

Powerfully written!! War isn't the answer just like fighting in schools doesn't solve the conflict. It adds more sorrow to our lives with the continual fighting. And yet with the advancement of technology we are still at square one. Yes the advancement of technology is convenient but to what extent does it play unto our lives. This mindset just continues forth no bringing peace to the world and yet such a terrible mindset to bring onto other areas such as the moon. Well written Emma there's so much to be said about war and peace.

Thanks Emma

[emmajoygreen]

Your review is very much appreciated.. ll we now have to do is persuade others to think the same.

[emmajoygreen]

We must but - with the gentlest of minds and hands to (somehow) prove that is the way to move forward!

[Kady R.]

Very wisely said Emma!!🤗🤗🥰🥰I know right reviews are far and few in between.

[Mysilentembrace]

This thinking is so important and I love that you’ve used poetry to question its means. This line stuck out so powerfully for me “ BUT there's no need for excuses, no explanation for orphans or missing
limbs:”. It feels important for what you’ve written here because it paints an image of those downfalls of war and keeps it from being esoteric by pulling in elements of the heart.

[emmajoygreen]

Thank you Your words seem to empathise some of mine. Will reciprocate as soon as can. Please nudge me, if nessary.

[Mysilentembrace]

I trust you will get to it in time. I’m hear to enjoy reading as much as writing :).

[emmajoygreen]

I certainly will :)

[Emunah June.]

When I was growing up, I always questioned the relevance of war. What purpose did it serve? Why did we do it? How do we start it? How do we know when its over? What justifies it? I would ask these questions and get varied responses -- some against, some in favor, some directly in the middle.

I find myself very middle ground minded. I will never actively choose war -- after all, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar -- but I know if someone is coming after us, we should be ready to defend ourselves. That being said ... I hate that we, the people, go to war as a first option that what I personally believe it should be ... a last resort, a final option, a "stand your ground" type of means of survival that should only come if that survival is genuinely being threatened. The politicians throw the threat around like its nothing, like war is just an errand you run on a Sunday afternoon. Its sad. No, worse than sad -- its horrifying.

Your words ring so true. If this pattern continues, if we choose to enact war over things we dont need, where does it end? Where is that line drawn, assuming one was ever drawn at all? If not now, when? And that last stanza hit so hard -- "think you, will the moon die?" -- because surely, in that literal context, humanity would populate the moons surface and just find reasons to harm one another again.

Such a well written piece, which means alot from me because I tend to try and avoid policial pieces. This one, though, is such a treat and I am so thrilled I was blessed enough to get to read it.

[emmajoygreen]

Many thanks for you empathic yet logical imput.. it both touches and inspires more debate if those who would, do.

[Akinlolu]

Dear Emmajoy
War is the ultimate Opium Rush, the most entertaining farce and the most thrilling game of all
Until you find yourself or your environment is embroiled in one
Then you find out it's nothing but a nightmare dressed in glory. War movies and wargames are bestsellers. Perhaps they attest to the fact that there is something perverse in humans that need war to make them feel whole. You live and let die.
Politics can't solve the problem. We need something better
But what exactly is that going to be? You can't just wish war away. Or legislate it out of existence. Perhaps it's the price we pay for being humans.
After the second world war, no one thought any nation or people would have the gut to engage in war anymore. But look where we are today
I try to look on the bright side as I write this review and hope a drone doesn't knock out my street.
Wishing you the very best.

[emmajoygreen]

As someone who considers war as what is a would-be pacifist, I'll try to accept much of what you'v e said above. However, will still stand with my belief that if war is worthy, WHY the death for trillions + deaths and destruction in the past and present day. Seems drones and starving wee children are used as weapons these day. There is no best in the Now.

[Akinlolu]

I'm sorry if you got me wrong. Maybe I was being too poetic in my response. All I was trying to say is that humans love war so much it's become a bestseller in our stories and games. However those of us who have witnessed war firsthand or partaken in one know better. We know there's no glory in war. The winners and the losers end up losing something. For soldiers and the resistance and whatever we call them, we start seeing humans as targets instead of people.
War destroys our humanity
And it fosters generational hatred. War destroys what we cannot rebuild. You can't call back the lives lost in a war.
The problem is just that despite all these, humans still continue to promote, justify and glorify war. But I don't think there are easy answers
If my family is threatened by marauders who.kill without mercy and rape available women for fun, I believe it's my duty to rise up in defense of my folks
I believe this is another angle to war
To.allow a lion to waltz into my bedroom to carry off my children for a meal is a crime especially when I have a gun and plenty of bullets
Pulling that trigger isn't being bloodthirsty
It's responsibility.
Thanks for allowing me to partake in this discussion.

Akinlolu

[emmajoygreen]

Do you honestly think everyone walking this earth supoports war? As you rightfully say war does destroy humanity. Tell that to people who make money out of weapons, war games for young people to be stared at on screen and repeated programmes and movies that make money that could perhaps protect or save Lord knows how many human beings from death via so many weapons. I read cultural and political history sime few years back, have details, figures some diagrams that show what man did to man. Know more than I can say. My opinion is not merely emotional it is based on knowledge. Plus two of our past family died in Japanese camps, one who had held his buddy as he died of starvation. etcetera. If by discussion we all learn that little more about others' opinions as you and I have, maybe in a thoursand years, Earth might still exist.

Protection of family from an attacker is logical. Can you say the same of wholescale slaughter, sir.

I am more than ready to PEACEFULLY exchange even more with you. E.

[Akinlolu]

Perhaps you and I can eventually reach a middle ground. But I sense it's not going to be today. However I understand your position and I respect it
Perhaps, the day will come when we will never need to fight wars on planet earth
I sincerely pray for peace. And I do my best to be a man of peace. Yet I know a lot of those around me laugh at concepts like that.

[emmajoygreen]

IF I feel anything, I love our Earth, I work on and with it as a horticulturist. War is one of the most detesable flaws Man can serve its terrestrial population, and beyond. What I call the 'all about'
is the most precious gift other than love that Man should and MUST protect.

[emmajoygreen]

oops, have twice try to set the above correctly!

[Samuel Dickens]

It's all so frightening to think about that I just stay away from contemplating it as much as possible. Besides voting, I know of little else I can do that would affect change for the better. It really gets me how one awful person can have the power to send multitudes into battle. No, war is not a great idea. There's some evidence that aliens have visited us before, possibly sharing technology with the pyramid builders and others. How nice it would be for them to come again and teach us not to kill one another.

[emmajoygreen]

How very, VERY TRUE, Samuel sir. I opt as seems so would you, all awards possible to those should be glorious aliens who would/could save our planet.

[Lorry]

I'm all for scientific feats of achievement, but deep down I might think it is for the best if Elon musk and his ilk have a catastrophic failure in their quest to infect the universe with the blight humans have thus far been. Maybe their spaceship could combust when no one is anywhere near it and just keep us pesky humans earthbound, because every possibility that runs through my head ends with a war of the worldsesque calamity that no amount of time on the naughty step will fix!
I mean, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the universes police ground us until we can at least play together without kicking, buying or shooting each other. Only then will be be allowed a provisional licence to roam the galaxies without sending the fear of alien gods into well, aliens I suppose.
I was always if the opinion that if you fail at something then you should persevere with it, but let's face it, us going a week without war is about as likely as a sparkly rainbow falling out of my right ear.
I was going to round this up with a "will we ever learn" but I think we all know the answer to that one, don't we?

[emmajoygreen]

I was always if the opinion that if you fail at something then you should persevere with it, but let's face it, us going a week without war is about as likely as a sparkly rainbow falling out of my right ear.
'I was going to round this up with a "will we ever learn" but I think we all know the answer to that one, don't we?' You, Lorry, have a brain that can not only make us smile and laugh but stills our lives to suggest, 'Methinks thus believes and gently declares far more than the average brain of the would be powerful and sadly, are. Long live sir Lorry!

[Lorry]

Well you know my motto Emma... if in doubt, give Katie the credit, or blame and hang my head in shame, so...
I just wrote down what Katie said because it makes me sounds Kleverur than me be.
So, othing to see here, move along please and thank you kindly on behalf of her Katieness. I'm sure she'll sigh and shake her head at me, but then smile and pat my head, which is good because I have an itch behind my right ear... must be from all those sparkly rainbows falling out of it! 😃

[emmajoygreen]

Where did those lovely rainbows come from? Have you be blessed with some of those wet drops over your land? Has been hot and hoomid and cloudy and blowy and how we all down here wish it would make up its wotsit mind! Hope your day is going wunduhfurly well, sir and siress. :)

[Lorry]

Yes, but not overly so. Sun is shining between clouds as we speak (8:13pm)

[emmajoygreen]

Hope the morrow continues the same way... that is, with sun shining kindly. :) (hope that itch goes too!(