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War Or Peace

Listen To The Children, Please

Do I care about conflicts and war
the rights and wrongs
the struggle for resources
man power and ego
- no - no - no, I whisper
as my heart aches for the innocent who die,
are wounded and traumatized —
the children, our next generation
the ones who survive
abused, misused or vanish
into the darkness of human cruelty