After "Teddy Bears for Guns" yesterday, I bring you another poem by Ada A. Aharoni, Ph.D. International President of PAVE PEACE Association and Coordinator of the International BAN - WAR CAMPAIGN.
This is adressed to Wilfred Owen, the great WW1 poet - who died in "The war to end all wars".
When will they ever learn?, When will they ever learn?
WE ARE STILL DEAF
Dear Wilfred Owen
you sang
you warned
you died
and we are still deaf.
Our sons' teeth
are still for laughing
round an apple,
yet now we tie
not only bayonet-blades to them
but also super Super Sams.
Their trembling limbs
are not only knife-skewed nowadays
but Napalm-roasted beyond recognition -
we have come a long way
in the killing game.
Wilfred Owen, you shouted:
the absurdity of war
the pity of war!
and we are still deaf.
Yet your poems tolling loud
for those who still die as cattle,
roaring loud against deaf drums -
are white flags waving:
The day will come before time falls from the clock,
when war will be a demoded anachronism
Wilfred Owen, you sang, you warned,
you cried, you died,
and we are still deaf, so deaf,
stupidly, stupidly deaf.
Ada A. Aharoni
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15/05/08 @ 19:45