After Wilfred Owen(1893-1918)
It's an insult towards our noble war dead
to march for peace on the Armistice Day,
for they died in war for the glory of war,
not for peace. They were killed so that
the slaughter could go on, so that blood
would flow as raging rivers, and intestines
would burst out from bayonetted abdomens,
so that broken skulls would give out the brains
they sheltered; in their innumerable agonies
the noble war dead died as a magnicent sacrifice
for the relentless, crimson gods of war, gods
that we hold sacred above all other gods.
It would be a terrible insult to call for
an end to a genocide on an Armistice Day, for
the gods of war hunger, peace is a sacrilege,
and death must reign supreme over humanity.
06.11.2023
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