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THE SUPERIMPOSITON OF WAR AND PEACE





We fell into weeping long before 9/11; when we were told

We had to make the world safe for democracy; when World

War I was the world to end all wars and the pot kept boiling.



The Indians wept when the great white father told them to make

Way for the onslaught of the white man who needed their land.

We are the grandchildren of unfaithful purveyors of peace.



We planted fields of sorrow near the Tigris and the Euphrates long

Ago in cradles of early civilization before modern Iraq; later, the Pax

Romana was a thousand years of peace foisted by the sword.



The new Pax Americana will be a peace imposed by the same armed

Camp of Rome operated this time by CEO’s and not Caesars; the

Caesars of today are marionettes reading lines scripted by profiteers.



Weeping today no longer has a freshness to it and it is liked the

Hackneyed brays of a mule overburdened by its protracted plight;

Now the weeping comes from the gods appealing to higher gods.



It is not the fault of soldiers of Jihads or G.I.S who are told that peace

Is won be the superimposition of violence; it is the merchants of

Death using the currency of blood telling us that peace is won this way.



This serpentine path to peace leads to all the writhing and weeping

While adorning the serpent’s caul with jewels from rash profit; it only

Takes one mahatma Gandhi and not an army to superimpose peace.