Dear Wall,<\/p>\n
Your polished surface deceives.<\/p>\n
You appear serene, yet you are bursting with anguish and lost potential.<\/p>\n
You are a wall of great sadness.<\/p>\n
You remember the young, whose lives were engulfed in the flames of war.<\/p>\n
They wanted to live and love, but the cruel war stopped them.<\/p>\n
They had lives before the lies of their leaders took them to war.<\/p>\n
Their mistake was to trust.<\/p>\n
And they never returned to their loved ones.<\/p>\n
Wall, their names are carved into you.<\/p>\n
Their hearts flutter around you.<\/p>\n
These young who died are sentinels, warning of danger,<\/p>\n
Reminding us that war is a fool\u2019s game,<\/p>\n
A game in which everyone loses,<\/p>\n
Except for the arms merchants.<\/p>\n
Wall, you reflect war\u2019s human price.<\/p>\n
Let the old and gray pay the price, if they must.<\/p>\n
But youth, be wary of war.<\/p>\n
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David Krieger is founder and president of the <\/em>Nuclear Age Peace Foundation<\/em>, and a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>. <\/em>Amongst several of his wide-spanning leadership endeavors in global peacebuilding, he is a founder and a member of the Global Council of Abolition 2000, councilor on the World Future Council, and is the chair of the Executive Committee of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility. Dr. Krieger is the author of many books and studies of peace in the Nuclear Age. He has written or edited more than 20 books and hundreds of articles and book chapters. He is a recipient of several awards and honors, including the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology Peace Writing Award for Poetry (2010)<\/em>. He<\/em> has a new collection of poems entitled <\/em>Wake Up.\u00a0 For more visit the <\/em>Nuclear Age Peace Foundation website: www.wagingpeace.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Wall,
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