Poetry – No War has ever been won

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No War has ever been won

No war has ever been won.

We always count the casualties.

It always resounds down the centuries.

No war can ever be won.

We all lose when we start.

The billions we spend on guns

Is taken from a range of funds.

No war is ever won.

When we turn to war

We traumatise so many.

Winners? There are not any.

You can never win a war.

No war has ever been won.

We count the cost in hate;

Minds broken on winds of fate.

For no war can ever be won.

When that is what we choose

We all lose.

Opher 23.10.2019

Every war resonates down the centuries – hatreds are stoked for centuries. We’re still fighting the First World War, the Battle of the Boyne and all the rest.

They are never forgotten.

The winners are scarred. The losers are scarred.

We are all the poorer. The traumatised, with their PTSD, clog up our streets, our hospitals and our mental homes. The anger, violence and hatred resound through our communities.

Nobody ever wins a war.

Extreme US Right-Wingers still blaming immigrants instead of putting the blame where it belongs.

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Senator Ted Cruz is pandering to the fascist populism that Trump represented and amplified. He encourages stupidity and uses racism and fear to generate division for his own interests. It’s not that he’s in denial; it’s more that he is deliberately provoking hatred for his own ends. Disgusting!!

Poetry – A poem of hatred in numbers

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A poem of hatred in numbers

9 11,

7 7,

Close your eyes and go to heaven.

13 11,

22 3,

No god will ever recognise thee.

7 7

22 3

A heart full of hate is never free.

Opher 24.3.2016

A poem of hatred in numbers

I wrote this poem for all the victims of terrorism around the world, for the people of Belgium and Paris, New York and London.

I wrote it bearing in mind Bali, Madrid and all the other places where the evil bombers have taken the blood of innocent people.

I wrote this for the terrorist scum and their doctrine of hatred.

The terrorists want to create division, hatred and war.

I feel that what we need is unity, love and peace to show them that there is a better way to live. We are better than them.

We will not hide in our homes and allow them to terrorise us with their threats. We will be out on the street defiantly embracing and holding hands.

Our intelligence services will hunt down the indoctrinated fools who planned these atrocities.

Our military will destroy the evil caliphate who behead, rape and terrorise. Such evil cannot be permitted.

Our educators will promote the message of tolerance and freedom.

There is no paradise awaiting monsters that have no love and mercy in their hearts.

There is no god who would condone barbarity.

The promise of virgins is an infantile concept for gullible fools.

There is no religion worth a bean that promotes rape and savagery. A curse upon all who spread the message of hatred. May they rot in their own hell. Your days are numbered.

Donal Trump – Who will pay for this orchestrated outpouring of hatred and emotion?

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Is this really politics?

When a crowd is baited into hysterical emotional outbursts of hate can that be politics? Who will pay in the long run? Is this healthy for the country to foster such hatred and division?

Surely politics should be about presenting a series of policies and arguing why they are the best options. Surely it should be a cerebral process of debating and weighing up which is the best philosophy for the country?

The USA process seems to be one of demonising, taunting and creating monsters out of the opposition. Seemingly Hilary Clinton is a liar who supports the devil. She should be locked up.

The audience is exhorted to hate in what looks remarkably like a scene out of George Orwell’s 1984. I find it frightening. The emotions are so high it breaks out into violence.

After all the dust has settled what will be the end result? Where will all that hatred and division go?

Here and in America we are looking at politicians (and their crew) who are setting out to inflame and create division.

Austerity, low pay, immigration, race, patriotism, poverty and hopelessness are deployed as weapons to create emotional responses. It is cynical. It is deplorable.

I believe in intelligence, debate and argument – not emotional outbursts and people being whipped up into a fury.

This is not politics. This does not result in a better future. This merely divides and creates hatred.

There has to be a better way than this. This will not result in a happy nation. The rage will live on and on and on…………..