We cry when we look
So we look away
Atrocities are easier to swallow
When blended with half truths
And sweetened with righteousness
Peace promoted through vengeance
Like a child’s immature retaliations
“Because they did it first”
And we shake our heads
Wondering at its failure
We rattle our fists
And swear to our gods
and take two eyes for one
Then leave our crumbling gold
To patch the wound
We arrogantly ask our children to fight
Denying all kinship
And diverting our vision
For as long as we don’t look for it
We’ll never have to see
Humanity in the eyes of our enemy.
© Tara Wagner
I'm Tara Wagner, life coach and creator of the Digging Deep process, where I coach women out of survival mode to recreate their lives and families.
I want you to know that I LOVE this and I think you should post poetry more often.
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Nice. Yup, yup, denial, not confronting, disconnecting, all makes it easier.
LOVE love your poem. Thank you for sharing it.
Wow. Thanks. I actually rarely write anymore, or when I do it’s just a quick jot down of wordy emotions and nothing worthy of sharing (more personal journal type stuff). But I do wish I had the inspration more often. I do love it. It’s nice to see at least one other person appreciates it too.