Peace For Dummies Poem by vern eaker

Peace for dummies

Where is that book, into that issue we should look?

Wars have raged far too long, could we not see that answer is wrong?

Who can defend wars cost, monetarily and with lives lost?

How can one proclaim a win, after all is totaled in the end?

Could we expect compassion, displaying retaliation in such a fashion?

Will we ever represent peace, as our willingness to battle seems never to cease?

Can we continue to claim defense, engaging in battles at any pretense?

Questions I have many, sadly enough answers I don’t have any

So why is it in times like these, there is no guide that would appease?

Should be simple easy to understand. LOVE and RESPECT our fellow man

To defy either would be a crime, perhaps requiring counseling very worst time

In schools compassion taught, in hopes never again a war is fought

Funds saved without confrontations, supplying medicine water food for nations

Manpower that could be freed, applied toward a nobler deed

Instead of more destruction, new unarmed forces working toward construction

We need only to agree, to assist in compiling and supporting a world peace philosophy