Against War

The battlefield is not a place to write poetry But it is a place where poetry is abundant There is no justification for war in the 21st century War will only get us back to the era of darkness We need to raise our pens and defend humanity Every human being is a sacred part of us Regardless of their location, religion or race We need to occupy the face of the world Our words need to wail in disgust Our pens need to bleed for those who are suffering Our tears need to fall hard into the mind of the tormentors We must plead with our collective consciousness To open every heart and to cancel every celebration We need to submerge ourselves in despair And be dressed in disgust This war is not their war It is our war We have failed to develop the human conscience We have left others behind While we were chanting our love songs We must go back to the drawing table And paint the world with the colours of our pain Together, we will extinguish this war Our pain will be our weapon Our disgust will be fed to the warmongers This war will stop, only if we speak with one voice Dedicated to the people of Ukraine ©Kenneth Maswabi