A GRIOT'S VEXATIOUS WAR SONNET         
  
It was once written that there are wars and rumors 
of wars; 
Today, those rumors are no more, but the many wars 
still are. 
Today, the world is as innudated with war as the sky is 
with stars; 
Blatant wars are going on around the world both near 
and far. 
The military was once looked upon as the protective arm 
of a nation, 
Rather than as a seemingly octapus-like armed invading 
destructive demon:- 
Was there not a time when war was a major UN concern 
of arbitration? 
Why is it that world wide concern for peace on earth is 
no more common? 
In wars of scattered times past, lives were lost and the 
collateral damage, abundant; 
In present day current occuring wars, deaths and collateral damage 
are both huge:- 
In the past, majority deaths were military; today, such deaths a...  |