We weep
    not for ourselves
    but for those
    in untold suffering-
    the innocent
    sacrificed
    in the name
    of national cause
    or ideology-
    lives don't count
   whether a thousand
   or ten thousand
   should perish
  while the perpetrators
   sit back to watch
  the carnage
  drinking champagne
or revelling in whisky

we who feel
for the suffering
of our fellow-beings
can't cease weeping
in the face of humanity's dying