A Mother Does Not

A mother does not raise her child for to fight and die in war Or to kill another Human Being in a Country from home far That her son or her daughter should at someone else shoot to kill A person they have never known or who have never bore them ill. Picasso's 'Screaming Woman' is for all woman kind The mother weeps for her dead child with grief 'out of her mind' Mothers do not raise their children for to be remembered on War Memorial Day For to fight in war for war mongering non combatants and throw their lives away A mother raises her son or daughter so her seed of life will live on That her genes will still be around when she herself has gone From the World of the living to be numbered amongst the dead I wish for my children to outlive me that's what the mother said. A mother does not raise her child for to meet with an early death Not for her War Memorial Day or the words 'Lest we forget' She wants her son and daughter for to grow old and gray And she does not wish to hear of War and War Memorial Day.