Are we going to do this again?

 

The nations of the world slowly re arm with missiles and tanks

New submarines are launched alongside aircraft carriers

 

Are we going to do this again?

 

Trades wars, border disputes and plagues beset us

More casualties and increased poverty and prejudice abound

 

Are we going to do this again?

 

Brinkmanship, threats and even more sophisticated weaponary

Military hardware prepared and stockpiled

 

Are we going to do this again?

 

Young men and women in uniform with their brains blown out

Those at home, the elderly and children will perish

 

Are we going to do this again?

 

The dead and mortally wounded are those who pay the price

Those who could have been writers, poets, artists and musicians

 

Are we going to do this again?

 

The earth becomes scarred and polluted

Nature is ransacked and violated, animals are casulaties also

 

Are we going to do this again?

 

People gassed, exterminated with the vilest of weapons

Minorities oppressed, persecuted and annihilated

 

Are we going to do this again?

 

Towns and cities laid waste by constant bombardment

People starving reduced to tearing horses apart for food

 

Are we going to do this again?

 

Preparations are underway each and everyday

To do what we have done before and learn nothing from it

 

Are we really going to do this again?

 

After a century of brutal savagery with millions slaughtered

Our foes then are now our friends and allies

 

Are we really going to do this again?

 

It would seem that we learn little except peversity

We are blinded to beauty by the glory of war

 

This will happen again