Please lay down your weapons
Please respect fellow man.
I am taught a lesson
The way only graves can.
The somber silence
Hangs o'er the land
Where soldiers lie
Slain by fellow man's hand.
Why can't we learn
That we all can live as one.
We cannot unite
Until that is done.
May 17, 2022
Likely to no one's surprise, I wrote this after visiting Mt. Hertzel, the Israeli equivalent of Arlington National Cemetery. Because of the conscription, most of the ages listed on grave markers were about the same as mine, many even younger. Just a really somber place.
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