When Will War End?

 When Will War End?

It will be when misguided leaders dare to share

their true feelings, and not just defend

their battered egos, wary in their lair.

War mongers will fare much better in the end

if they bare their embattled souls in the care

of understanding men, and end their warring ways.

Or if they listen to mothers who make a stand

by calling the mothers of the opposing band

to come and pick up their soldier sons

so traumatized by killing innocents that they surrendered their guns.

When will humans understand

that the price of conquering land is blood,

that there are no winners in war.