What War Means

An everlasting state of conflict, forgotten and remote
 Disregarded and concealed
 There is slaughter and bloodshed every day
 Hunger, pain and forced migration
 So far away from your safe homes
 A world engulfed in violence
 None of your fathers, none of your brothers
 Sons and daughters lost in action
 Self-sacrifice, a privilege just granted to the poor
 The cruelties you know are black and white
 So distant in time and space
 Manipulated and sedated by military vapouring
 About surgical precision and righteous interventions
 Now they promise "no feet on the ground"
 But you're just bored with peace
 These wars are televised, edited and defanged
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 Blindness!
 No screams of anguish resound
 No air raid sirens sounding through the night
 You just consume the horror, entertaining and amusive
 You're not at war
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 Your land of bliss lies in an oppressed world of misery
 There has never been esteem for simple human harmony
 And you're just bored with peace
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 These wars are long-yearned-for
 They need these states to burn
 Believe me, you do not know
 
 What war means, what war does to your families
 Feelings of supremacy, reckless and inconsiderate
 Contracted patriots heady with victory
 And lacking ordinary empathy
 An everlasting state of conflict, forgotten and remote
 Disregarded and concealed
 And you're just bored with peace, an abysmal tragedy