Looking Up And Looking Ahead

Looking Up and Looking ahead

"And all shall be well
and all manner of things shall be well"
and the fire and the rose shall be one.
He in the war-zone , having seen both,
the fire and the rose,
had only this to say.
The war has changed the face and the fields;
The cause is lost long ago.
Battles and skirmishes, a reason to kill.
People live huddled in fear,
not able to see a road ahead.
Pretending to possess the intrepid rage,
they sing in concerts and chill out in the dark
not conscious of the malice they inject in the rage
confined only to imaginary battle-fields and the subverted songs of the litany of fear.
Will one soul come ahead of his tribes and show the way to sink the histories and close the vaults,
seal the languages and declare them redundant for the ages to come?
Will one voice be raised above the cry of vilification of the foe
and the clamour to kill?
Old as we are , we seek a simple answer to our prayer,
Save the child that holds the baton,
save the food and the light and the roof.
Save the hearts of the children from malice and hate.