War's Unsatiated Roots
Throughout the night
Maintenance sentries clocked by the hour
Sprinkle roots to spawn further
Their call of duty arcing
In a different time zone
Thousands of mind-miles Eastward
Bombs and tracer-glow
Arc a different earth
Arid with history’s human mulch
Filling lungs with particles
Dust of bones and flesh
Fed but poison for lifetimes
How sad
This thing called war
Where daily irrigation of its roots
Seep ever deeper into the erosion
Cycling seeds of hatred and ignorance
Spawning more perpetuated habit
Making yesterday’s roots of life
A planet’s mere waiting game for
Tomorrow’s necrotic death and more
Roots of unsatiated gluttony.
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Jane
The good news is, by this time in the earlier centuries, many more people had died in war, famine and pestilence. Until we can find a way to get people from hating and killing as a result, we will have trouble eliminating war. The nuclear genie is a good example. The United States stopped Japan from fighting and he became a rather peaceful nation. But many other warlike nations have picked up a bomb and can now use it to threaten a nuclear world war.
Ron
In 1924, thanks to the telephone and telegraph, even small town newspapers had lurid headlines of what was happening around the world. Currently, the stock market was booming and everybody was buying stock who knew how to do it through brokers.