THE STARS IN THE SKY

The children of
Palestine, Israel
Ukraine, Russia &
America all see
The same night
Stars in the sky
In the dark

But some of those
Lights are not the
Stars of heavenly wonder
But the last seconds
Of life

Before death

Fear

From above

Bombs & war planes
The burning world

Where the stars suddenly all
Become monsters

Nightmares

Become
The bastards
The reapers
The harbingers
Of all loss
& despair

But the children of
Palestine, Israel
Ukraine, Russia &
America don’t understand
Why don’t understand
All the reasons why

Any God or
Any Father any
Mother or leader,
Soldier would want
To kill anyone

With a gun
With hate
With a bomb
Or for a little patch
Of dirt where hope
Where love no longer

Exists

And so we
All wonder why how
They all grow up
And become the
Monsters themselves

Looking up
At the night sky &
At all the stars above
Perhaps sometimes thinking
To themselves
In the dark

Why are we killing
People & their children
That we don’t even

Know

~ R.M. Engelhardt
©2023

#f*ckdeath #f*ckwar