home Poem List next poem War's Redirection Many seek to redirect war's choices Seeking to have us defend their homelands Formerly they occupy rejoices Hoping displayed godheads placed in our hands Will sway our hearts out of pitty and hate That we destroy once supportive allies In favor of those who once asked us to wait Long after our supposed enemy dies Before we check the numbers of windows Men looked out before being killed in mass To find windows won't outnumber shadows Which haunt warily on once well mowed grass Let us consider life's sequence and cause Placing precursors upon logic's rack Whatever their source or claims to what was Comparing once argued matters of fact As viewed from each separate thought structure Incurring unique vocabulary Because of perspective or stray culture In short any source that makes men wary When groups step into the light, then withdraw We must wonder which fear of war they've met Why others deny forced choices fate saw What is it thought's traitors have to regret (c)ERA 11:29 AM 2/21/03