The Main Reason For No More Wars Poem by Jim Yerman

There is one main reason to have no more wars…one reason no more soldiers…no more buildings…no more countries should ever fall…
That reason lies in the eyes and the hearts of the youngest of us all.

There are countless victims in a war…so many losses coast to coast….but, I imagine, in any war it is the children who lose the most.

All parents…every mother…every father…every woman…every man…want to see their children remain children for as along as children can.

It is the innocence of their childhood we'd like to take our time and walk them through…to show them all the beautiful things a little compassion and love can do.

Our children need us to be their teachers…to find a way to reach into their hearts and minds and souls…until it is their turn to teach.

It is a world of peace and love we'd like them to explore…but…how can we teach of peace and love in the middle of a war?

In truth…we can't! Because even if children survive the war…if they're one of the lucky ones…their eyes can never un-see the damage war has done.

For somewhere along the way they pay too high a cost…their purity is taken…their innocence is lost.

Because when children see that first bullet fired…that first bomb drop…with their initiation into war….no matter what we say or do…they are not children anymore.