ONCE BITTER FOES

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Companions now, once bitter foes,

Sleep together, friends,

Destiny and Fate conspired to bring to bitter ends.

Men who once were bitter foe,

Struck to earth by a mortal blow,

By men whom they might never know,

But comrades once again.

In slumber how they gently sleep,

In little beds of clay,

In darkness, they will never know if it is night or day.

There’s joy tonight with men they slew,

For death has made men equal, true,

Sent to death by moneyed few,

But what a price they pay.

The old men with their shares in wars,

Will reap their just reward,

The Reaper Grim will make them pay,

All those who make the swords,

Inspired by lies and foul words said,

With war machines investment fed,

There’s no rebirth for them.

Mícheál Walsh Forbidden Poetry

QUOTES THAT MAKE SENSE:

I could not dig: I dared not rob, / Therefore I lied to please the mob. / Now all my lies are proved untrue, / And I must face the men I slew. / What tale shall serve me here among, / Mine angry and defrauded young? – – Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936. 

If any question why we died, tell them because our fathers lied.  – Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936. 

‘Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.’  Henry Kissinger as quoted in Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW in Vietnam (1990) by Monika Jensen-Stevenson and William Stevenson.  

‘If a nation is to go to war, then that nation cannot afford to tell the balanced truth about the enemy nation, and anyone who does during wartime will be tried and sentenced for sedition, and possibly executed. The warmongering faction has to get its citizens mad at the enemy and in the proper mood. It has to get its citizens to think they are fighting for the world’s good, and for Christian or other religious righteousness, and the enemy is evil and ruled by the devil. So, it was with the propaganda against Hitler and Germany, and so it has been ever since.’ – Alex S. Perry Jnr. The Barnes Review, Vol. No.1.

The Swiss scientist Jean-Jacques Babel found that during the last 5,700 years, humanity fought 14,500 wars with three and a half billion dead. That is half of today’s world population. In 1991 for example there were 52 wars or warlike crises on this earth.