Thankless Task for Friend Craig

poem in rhyming quatrains

 

Thankless Task.

 

Death never takes a holiday.

He has too long a waiting list.

He has to work twelve hours a day.

Because we humans will persist.

 

In fighting wars for no good cause.

We cannot learn to live in peace

We always think that sheer brute force

 Will overcome our enemies..

 

It seems that we will never learn

 violence begets violence

and hatred will hatred return

We seem bereft of moral sense.

 

When friendship can pay dividends.

Why human beings choose to fight

Make enemies instead of friends.

When they could do the opposite,

 

Death never takes a holiday.

Although really needs a rest..

He has to work twelve hours a day.

He has good reason to protest.

 

Perhaps when the last man dies.

Then death can take a holiday.

He will rejoice at our demise.

And who could blame him anyway.

 

Thursday, 25 March 2010

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Reviews

[Tate Morgan]

You speak with the essence of a man who has seen enough to know.And that is our punishment isnt it to learn too late that we are wrong