In memory of the victims of war...

I wanted to write a sad poem

Poem did you say?

Say it all with teary-eyed expressions

Expressions of loss, pain and helplessness

Helplessness in the name of ugly politics

Politics of hate, selfishness and lust for power

Power to rule, power to vanquish, power to kill

Kill in the name of God, Justice and Good

Good and war do not even rhyme

Rhymes lose their symbiosis in the realms of terror

Terror never was the solution nor ever will be

Be it for freedom fighters or tormented souls

Souls that crave nourishment can be fed

Fed by the magic of patience and compassion

Compassion that grows out of sheer faith

Faith nurtured in the womb of love

Love which binds the human race

Race not towards a bloody victory

Victory loathes the taint of victims

Victims trapped in a vicious circle

Circle the world with infectious optimism

Optimism that can laugh away the scramble

Scramble to our feet in defiance of violence

Violence wiped off the map?What do you say of that?

Krishnee APPADOO

Sceller l'innocence

qui ensoleille

tes yeux

pour qu'elle

ne cesse

d'amouracher

mon coeur déserté

UMAR

Looking glass

As a looking glass

My heart Constantly sends out

Hidden warring impulses

Of my mental universe,

Where once curiosity

Pairing with love and innocence

Without my permission

Or assistance sought,

Assisted my creative will

To form a garden of virtue

In the soil of belief and faith

With slow observation

So that beauty grows

In its prosper course

But now drugged

With spirit of evolution and chance

Reason whose intelligence

Is short, knowledge just a drop,

Close to zero, logic hardly

Piercing the gloom of existence

At my feet, considers

Mind and matter

Yoonoos PEERBOCUS