We created constructs that touch the skies.

We invented crafts that reach the moon.

Yet for all our technological advances,

There is still war.

How many more must be lost,

before we recognise,

not a scientific theory or tool,

but rather a simple fact.

The reality that the only victor in war is death.

We may have touched the skies,

we may have reached the stars,

but we cannot grasp the insanity of war.

And until we do, can we truly call ourselves a civilisation?

"We are so intelligent and do such astonishing things. We can fly to the moon and yet still do such stupid things." - Ken Sturdy, Dunkirk Veteran.