War has never stopped
Remember that
1945 did not bring peace
It left us poverty and pain
And great mistrust
The Cold War came
Before the settled dust
McCarthy witch-hunts
Then came Vietnam
And proxy wars
US shenanigans
The age of spies
Governments overthrown
El Salvador and Chile
Lands forlorn
US/Russia stand-off
All these years
We played at James Bond
Forgive my jeers
We never tried to even understand
We just knew fear
And fear rules the land
This war now gives us
Time to educate
Help Ukraine of course
But do not exacerbate
Realise how little we have done
To bring the world to peace
And leave the gun
The wounded Lord had wounds
When he rose again
His hands and side were marked
To show his pain
What we go through
A wisdom now it brings
Rise from this mess
And find the song to sing
Brian Fahy
16 April 2022
+ As Putin is wrong to invade in Ukraine, so were we in Iraq. Like Putin, we felt a threat to security and that was our permission to strike. Putin is wrong and so were we. We do not have to agree with him, but we do need to understand what motivates him. He is no more a monster than we are.
Erris Poetry 