Indecisive

By Devin Mullin

Why love when we can fight?
Violence, pain and shame can last all night.
It’s a waste to be happy nothing gets done,
true progress only comes by the gun.
We live in a world that understands force,
not courage, not grace, and definitely not remorse.
There’s no love for the enemy, let them die.
We’ll feel no guilt when we hear their wife’s cries.

Wait…

Perhaps instead we could understand,
empathize with them, don’t reprimand.
Of course some force will still be needed,
but a certain level should never be exceeded.
We could trust in the goodness of humanity,
try to end all of this calamity.
Maybe, just maybe, we don’t have to fight.
We could let acts of love be our signs of might.

Actually…

Never mind the world can’t be changed.
Human nature is too deranged.
People betray, that’s the cold fact.
To turn the other cheek is to present your back.
It won’t be long before a knife’s wedged deep.
Your life is over time to sleep.
There’s only one shot, you don’t live twice,
misjudge the world and pay the ultimate price.

Although…

Life is too short to live divided,
to waste the world we’ve been provided.
If we all want peace where is it?
We all need to lay down our arms for a minute.
There has to a better way, I just know,
a better path where love could flow.
It takes real courage to not comply,
and only obedience to fight and die.