Why There is War

The flag doesn’t hang

On Sundays,

But on every other day

The girls wear their crosses, their veils…

And boys their yarmulkes, their turbans…

This separation of church and state-

Where church can impose upon state

But no religious organization

Can be touched by the power

Of government-

Is a problem.

The warring exists on all levels.

Within one country,

Every party is against the next.

Even where there is but one party,

Harmony flees the corruption.

Nations pin themselves

In war.

Then there are the states

Who fight other countries,

Because the preachers and the imams

The rabbis and the shamans

Don’t preach about

A world of people.

There is a race of humans,

The human race,

But it’s been divided

By a tonation

So insignificant that

Genes do not even store a record.

Why is this,

The last information

We know of ourselves?

It comes to us when the problem

Has already developed,

And nobody will take the time

To slow down

And listen to one another.