Kingdom of the Blind
When we've taken vengeance on our enemies
When they have taken vengeance on us
When the battlements that used to be our homes crumble
When the world is darker and much less humble
Then we have truly lost our way
We will have lost the right to rule any day
Our simple pleasures will be lost
Our children taught to be soldiers at what cost
Our skies will darken with machines of war
The ground will bleed under military law
And we will have realised much too late
That war was the only means to seal our fate
Understanding is what is needed now
Empathy explained to those who don't know how
The ones who have never been shown any compassion
Who can only hate in measured fractions
Some people don't understand how good life can be
They can't relate to the simple joys of family
So we must show them how
Educate them with a new vow
That human life is sacred and should be revered
Murder, rape, terror and fear are seeds of destruction
They are the reckless paving stones to our undoing
And until we stop the process of an eye for an eye for an eye for an eye
The peace of our world will always be denied...
How naive we are to think this can end with more death
More terror, more casualties and regret until no-ones left
Except the grieving and angry of the innocent forsaken
Who will then perpetuate the cycle of the broken
And rise to fight in the names of the deceased
Now blinkered and in rage they no longer want their war to cease
They no longer listen to innocence, they no longer see reason
On all contents they continue to fight through the blood of the seasons
And we begin to disintegrate amongst the grief and the wreckage of our lives
Our world becomes so inhospitable that no one survives
And if by chance that we do
Would this be a life that you would want for you?...
Revolt...
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- My condolences and thoughts go out to all the people who have suffered needlessly for any war, for any act of terror (and greed) in any time.