“I see no difference between war and ordinary ******” Albert Einstein
From the moon our planet looks unified Quite dapper in its veil of blue Pirouetting gracefully about the sun.
Lost in a dream, I see myself as a child – Innocent in my lawn chair On the Sea of Tranquility - telescope in hand.
The screen door pounds against its frame And Father hands me a lemonade And sinks into the chair beside me. This is the day HE must tell me.
I start to say how peaceful and kind it all is. And that I want to go there someday.
Father stops and me, takes a deep breath and begins: Two thousand years ago I sent My firstborn there to clean up a terrible mess.
Proud men slashed their neighbors And stole their goods, Neither children nor women were spared the sword. In the end, they hung him on a cross."
I said, “you must be mistaken; All I can see from here is serenity. This can’t be: they are all your children.”
Father continued, “It is worse now: Even prouder and crueler men and women too Use my name to justify their barbarism. Children are even killed in schools. They have made bombs strong enough To destroy an entire city - All over boundaries that I neither drew nor intended.”
My head sinks into my hands And I began to sob uncontrollably.
As I dream on, my wails carry all the way down to earth where all the children weep with me LOUDER AND LOUDER AND LOUDER!!
Their mothers run to their sides. Their fathers smash their AK - 47s And H bombs against the rocks – Vowing to relinquish fratricide forever!
I awake with a jolt only to find myself Back in the nightmare That the proud refuse to banish.