"If once did not suffice then we must do it twice"
A Call to Revolution
All over the world the children learn to hate
By traditional means unspoken and still
As part of the rest of the rust of their fate
Then some seem surprised when they grow up to kill
The children are only following orders
Like their parents did and their grandchildren will
Each generation gives blood for the borders
Since that is how they have been posted and drawn
In the dirt with the blood of the human race
Until the madmen in their maprooms have gone
To wherever the madmen of maprooms go
Children will be trained to be ground in the mill
To keep the blood fresh so the borders will show
That blood in that dirt once wore a human face
But the brain behind that face would never know
The answer or even what question to ask
Their blood was required to draw lines in the sand
Unspoken and still they were bred for the task
So they never had a chance to understand
The machinations of the maproom madmen
Only that the time had come to bleed once more
Fellow humans are you not weary of war?
It will end when we end it by saying when
Too much is enough and by asking what for
And why they need our blood to mark the border
Keep our blood in and let our souls out to soar
Past maproom madmen to a higher order
No license to kill no license to steal
No license to grind our children away
The madmen in the maproom are not real
But ghosts to scatter by the light of day
In our evolution we found revolution
If once did not suffice then we must do it twice
You said a mouthful there, that needs to be said, to all the mapmen in the world, those that help defend the tyrants that map the borders, yes a housecleaning every now and then, but it has to come from the neighbors too,human kind has to learn to live without a false identity of who they are, not Mexican, American, Catholic or Hindu, but humans, brothers and sisters of a higher order, much more important.
Herzlischen Gruss! Jasmin Horst
If parents gave a rip - if society gave a rip - we could change the world. We are supposed to train a child in the way that they should go, and they (shouldn't) stray from it - we've lost our authority. Sad - and very well penned.
Steven, I'm afraid it's a tough sell. If "twice" doesn't work,
let's do it again. As you say, hate is perpetuated from one
generation to the next. Perhaps that's why Plato, in his ideal
society, isolated the child from the parent. Gene.
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God Bless,
Lew
Herzlischen Gruss! Jasmin Horst
If parents gave a rip - if society gave a rip - we could change the world. We are supposed to train a child in the way that they should go, and they (shouldn't) stray from it - we've lost our authority. Sad - and very well penned.
(((HUGS))) and love, karla.
let's do it again. As you say, hate is perpetuated from one
generation to the next. Perhaps that's why Plato, in his ideal
society, isolated the child from the parent. Gene.