This senryu was my response to someone who asked, “Who do you stand with [on the Israel-Hamas conflict]?” War is a terrible thing. I’ll always hurt for innocent lives crushed because they couldn’t get away fast enough. Soldiers sort of know what to expect, when they go to war. But noncombatants caught in middle--women, men, children…--they didn’t sign up for all the dying. I stand with them. 💔
- for Poets and
Storytellers United--Friday Writings #104: Small Kindnesses.
Don't we all. But in every conflict we can say, "Who started it?"
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Peace is necessary, so is freedom. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteNo one would say they are on the side of death and destruction of innocents yet it keeps happening.
ReplyDeleteThe price of war is always unimaginable horror. Yet it continues.
ReplyDeleteYou put it more succinctly and beautifully than I did. My heart breaks for all the lives lost.
ReplyDeleteI stand with them as well. It doesn't matter who is fighting of why the innocent always pay. I hope you are feeling better. Hugs N
ReplyDeleteI stand firm, irresolute with you dear Magaly.
ReplyDeleteBeautifully condensed for a vast meaning. I too stand with the fallen.
ReplyDeleteI am with you
ReplyDeleteI agree, standing with all those caught in the middle. Such is war.
ReplyDeleteWell said, Magaly!
ReplyDeleteIt's the innocent people I feel for.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
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