I'm outside looking in
and I'm staring in bewilderment
at an historical situation
a political situation
which now has become a military situation
an argument
a disagreement about rights
a conflict of opinions
over lands
and ownership of lands
about the rights - or not
to be on those lands
different factions
different peoples
about their faiths and beliefs
their opinions - differing opinions
I see people that aren't listening to the words that many are saying
to the advice that is being given
from allies - those who support and supply them
to the mothers who are begging
to the men who are fighting
to children who are dying
to the politicians who are negotiating
across borders
across contested borders
to those who launch the missiles
their supporters supplied
into lands they call their own
to kill
to change minds
to change history
to displace
people they disagree with
to kill their leaders
to cut off the heads of the groups they despise
sat in lands that they believe are theirs
and with fingers on triggers
and with fingers in ears
some minds set only on what has gone before
making peace a thin vaneer
as fragile as porcelain
these factions will maintain their ground
what little ground they have
but ground they will fight over
in order to keep
for although an international agreement was signed
it was one which not all could agree to
and one which many still disagree over
an agreement which stamped the borders we see now
onto the most unstable part of the world
an arrangement not all the aggrieved partners took as gospel
an agreement which saw people displaced from homes
political factions
and locations
neatly set-up
on top of historical peoples
whose armed factions are prepared to fight to the last man standing
over their right to be
to be where they believe in
to be where they believe their right is
and where they are prepared to kill
to keep
kill or be killed
the ideologies are engrained over millennia
in which all believe
they are right
but as days pass
over the days I've written this piece
I've observed - and had to write more
to rewrite
for
things have got worse
a change
not for the better
not towards an end - a peaceful end
but more war...
Will this ever end?
