War by Molly Joseph

The car 
         has careened 
out of control!
where is 
            the world
heading to?
the mad 
       trump card
prevails, infectious
       world nations
falling in line...
 
         zest for power
domination 
         rules the roost!
how they sharpen 
          the  edges for
economic 
           materialistic
gains 
infusing 
              wrath... 
conflagrations 
        catch up
         unstoppable! 
 
Is there any 
          end to war
once it is
            unleashed?
No!
it    escalates
               flaring, 
burning!
         
merciless 
                  killing, 
  destruction
            demolition!
the hapless
                 humans 
innocent children, 
      women, the aged
fleeing for life....
 
the gory picture 
             of
        scattered
scampering 
         ants, when the
ant hill collapses...
 
      how 
    self destructive
the whole endeavour, 
                warfare!
 
its multifold
               fangs rise,
nuclear  
               bacterial
unleashing 
             emissions 
killing the environ
            the earth, the 
human, nonhuman!!
 
         these rapacious
leaders  
       mad, blindfolded 
setting their
                very  ship
they travel
                on fire
   seldom caring 
       for aftermath...
 
may be AI phantoms
              shift them 
out of the rubble!
 
who can reason
              these  insane
 to sanity?
          no world body
effective to the
          level desired...      
alas! 
     few conscience
keepers 
        do raise their
voice, but 
        who can stall
the floodgates
       that broke open
with fury 
           torrential! 
Only 
they sit and 
                     croak 
the frogs 
             beside the
pond, 
poets, philanthropists
         peace workers
they do endlessly
      croak and croak! 

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