War Is A Child Poem by Francis Duggan

War is a child of intolerance and hate
Fear, death and suffering is all it does create
It's living victims are the dispossessed and refugee
From war zones every day thousands of people across borders do flee
Words such as a just war are based on a lie
Those who instigate wars in war zones never do die
They enjoy the good lives the warlords of today
Though Karma may well yet come calling their way
Of war heroes many a story and song
But war does have it's source in power gone all wrong
In war the innocents suffer at the hands of the powerful few
To which you may say this not anything new
Civilians badly injured or dying in war zones every day
And others in refugee camps for a long stay