Why to war?

By: Caleb Kestner

Why to war go charging we on steeds of righteous rage?

Slashing through in shining suits the battles that we wage

We justify their dieing cries by crying, “we cried too!"

And death breeds hate, breeds rage, breeds death, in cycles all to true

Is peace the just reward of war? Or war corrupted peace?

Is all of man so twisted that this murder we can't cease?

But then again is all death sin? Do all deserve to live?

If someone strives to take a life can we to them it give?

Is it not right to take a life that other lives may grow?

But what if both are victim, both of them the foe?

How can we bind the broken sides and sooth the years of hate?

When will the children of revenge learn blood their thirst won't sate?

War that necessary bane that plague upon mankind.

Ever doomed to die for life we never seem to find.