Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.

Red Cloud

I say not who I really am

in honor of the dead.
Did they suspect this morning that it would be so?
The reason why we are here is like millions of pebbles on a beach
Being tumbled into fine smooth form by ocean waves
The reason why we were asked is not merely fate
It is the megalithic rock from whence we came.
It can't stay, it won't stay, it doesn't want to stay unchanged
Pushing on, reaching the greater perfection of unity.
Little pieces, maybe so - but it strives to be apart to fully understand the concept of wholeness.
A test.
By warring we fail the test - to be repeated till we get it right.
painfully so.

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