There is more beauty in ugly truth
than in made-up gloss for fools
where war is but talking points,
or just one of nations' tools,
or finding heroes to annoint
whose roughness we choose to smooth.
It's ugly truth that should stop the bull
that sends more men to die
and kill ever more innocent ones
whose babies we never hear cry,
who never themselves had held a gun
— and that is beautiful.
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placed in Poets United Think Tank #20: The ugly that is beautiful
The truth can seem ugly sometimes, but it's freedom is beautiful! A lovely write Philip!
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Philip,
ReplyDeleteI agree with the sentiments expressed within your poem.
Best wishes,
Eileen
Philip, so many losses in this war which goes on and on. My SIL has been in Iraq 3 times.
ReplyDeletePowerful statement about war. Well done.
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