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Text Box: War Lords War Lords sit in Council Deciding to decide Realising the enormity of their Imbalanced creation Knowing that they must now choose Those who remained human Plagued by distant Distorted Voices of conscience Their imbalanced creation Overwhelmed notions of Civility and Merciful practices Law making replaced by Presidential decrees Executive orders Directives and Unsound supreme courts’ Judicial Judgments What is different That was not The same yesterday? Wars and conflicts watered Vines of change Growth and Prosperity Destiny’s Rivers flow in New directions New paths created New life propagated Memory faded of distant Events Humanity survived And Survival nurtured by Fields of plenty Population managed Forests blossomed and flourished Environment content Plants and animals content Hills and mountains content Streams Rivers Seas and oceans content Peace content Greed Arrogance Unchecked lust for power Injustice Untruth Disorder Unkindness and War Discontent Focus and Clarity returned Gone Grey areas Betwixt the Ravine of Right and Wrong Choice offers universal standards By which Humanity measured Motivations Yet we fudged boundaries And become confused Our Tree of Life contaminated We resist the healing processes And are led to Battlefields of destructions War Lords sit in Council Deciding to decide A decision must be made Deciders become impatient And restless They prevaricate Mindful of the enormity of Their imbalanced creation Human surrogates War Lords’ enabling tools Realised belatedly The enormity of Their collaborated Imbalanced creation Hesitation Too late Dissents not permitted No turning back No second thought Pledges made Pledges redeemed Blood Sacrifices of the Innocents offered Decisions made and Sealed The Gates are opened Powerful Crackling and Deafening Noise Shattered quietness of The Environment Tumbling roars Rushed forward with Purpose The crushes of Destruction heard In the distance As human edifices lay Bare and new paths Created Flocks of birds In purple skies Flying high in haste With forlorn hope To escape fiery air And falling to the ground Like rain drops Never to rise again Voice of Reason Submerged under Deep lakes of blood War Lords become Strong and mighty They trampled on the Rights of the innocents The rulers could do no wrong They prevailed From the dust of The Earth arose Guardians That stood in the way of The War Lords and Their surrogates With their fiercest weapons War Lords and surrogates Attacked the Guardians of The Earth Surrogates puzzled at The Guardians’ renewable Strength War Lords indifferent Aware of the Guardians’ Protective Powers Having been defeated in ancient Celestial combats Humanity The deceived Continued to battle Guardians of the Earth With hope of victory War Lords retreated Realising they could Not prevail Humanity dwindled in The heat of the fiercest battles Transient values faded Replaced by new Realities International boundaries melted Border guards non-existence Diseases rampant Healers dead and dying Civilised values distant memories And scattered in small enclaves Humanity searched for new values Amid rotten Rusting Radioactive and Germ contaminated Relics and Human deformities The Tree of Life Healing processes Continue Contaminants receded And remnants of Humanity Look to Space for a new beginning Learning to respect Life The Environment and THE SOURCE Ba ~Afrika 11.09.2007 (In celebration of the Ethiopian Second Millennium - Year 2000 C.E.) Top of page

Text Box: “A Dolmen built by WAR LORDS in 2500 BC in County Clare, IRELAND . To commemorate the War Lords’ or Kings’ wives at death. It was their crypt.” Words and Photos by Dan D. 16/10/2000. http://www.gonewengland.org/

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