When we waged our first war
It was over necessity
To acquire what we did not possess
But did we stop there? Not a chance,
because we have a tendency to be greedy
and a desire to see ourselves on a pedestal
So we waged more wars,
this time over land and territory
No matter the lives lost
No matter the broken hearts
Because, in the end, all that mattered to us
was Victory and Dominion.
The price we paid, always in blood.
Years passed, we became more civilized
But more harmonious?
Now we fight over conflict of thought
Because that’s all there is left to fight over
Some wars are small, you debating over whether
you agree with your neighbours’ lifestyle choices
But some wars are devastating, the blood price
always being a means to an end, willing even.
But if life teaches us anything, it’s only this
To become better as a humanity, all we need
is to ‘make peace’ and ‘let live’
But why oh why is that so hard to realize.
UDAYOLOGY 
Beautiful. And sadly true. 😦
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I think it is hard to realize because often times only one side wants that peace and let live….it takes both sides to establish that Peace. “Turn the other cheek” ….yes, but to what extent?
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And that’s the sad reality. We cannot change everyone we want through words alone.
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Well written! Sadly… the wars that we have seen and that are yet to come are not just coz of necessity.. its coz you lose the battle within yourself, and when you can’t even accept yourself, how and why will you accept others? No wonder they leap into the harshest decisions that their mind can take! Read this in a book “Fighting for peace is like f***ing for virginity!”
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Ah, so very true. Sometimes a war seems like the only way to achieve what one would want, if only a person would invest some thought into its ramifications. A little shift in perspective can go a long way!
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True that! it’s all about the perspective 🙂
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Looks like you have set foot in the poetry world. Congrats and well written.
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Thanks! I’m not sure if this classifies as an actual poem though. It looks like a para cut into different lines.
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LOL..did you intend it to be a poem?
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Yea…but then I realized that I don’t have the rhyme in me 😉
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Lol..the past two times I wrote poetry on the blog was when I was feeling some emotion – joy or sorrow or something else – very strongly. Maybe this’ll help you.
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Uday, what you have here is does classify as a poem. 🙂 It’s called “free verse”. Not all poems have to have meter, rhythm, or patterns. Free verse sounds more like natural speech. Here are some examples: http://literarydevices.net/free-verse/
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Oh, did not know that! Maybe I’m a free verse guy after all. 🙂
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Good one ..Your poem aptly reflects the current situation.
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Thanks Janhavi
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Loved your first attempt at poetry, Uday! Or is it your first? Because this was pretty damn good. =D
You know I always thought if I could go back and intervene to that moment when the first war was about to start. All I’d need is a wooden crate to stand on and a loudspeaker to deliver a message loud and clear. “Um you guys, consider this, how about we drop our weapons, sell all the ammunition we’ve got, and invest it in something bigger and better instead? Like exploring space and finding out what secrets it hold in its deep reaches? Yeah? It’s a way better idea than all this.”, gesturing the *ahem* ‘fighters’. “That, I can say for sure. Wouldn’t we all be victors with a collaboration of nations, people and factions of humanity like that?”
And then everyone would bow. And they’d make me queen. Obviously. Lol.
Or, we’d be where we are now. Yup.
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Well as you can tell from how rudimentary it is, this is my first attempt at poetry indeed. 🙂 Apparently this falls under a style called “free verse”.
And you know what, I was thinking the same sometime back. Every country spends so much money and effort to maintain an “army” to defend itself from others. It sounds so pointless in the grand scheme of things, I mean why are we even fighting among ourselves?! All that money can go into something good! *sigh*
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Exactly. All we need is to make peace and live. Sadly, some people don’t realize this and all they want is war and bloodshed. Killing can never be a way to solve problems.
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