Children ducking

 ‘children ducking’ Trgates,8/2/2025

children in the way of wars
hatred’s justification cries out
“you don’t understand,
they fired the first shot!”
only thing better,
the Just War theory,
good for collateral damage 
euphemism for murder,
guess Jesus didn’t mean
“children, for of such belongs 
the kingdom of heaven.” —
guess their wars 
gift a sooner than later. 
there are many good reasons 
for retaliation of wars, 
only problem 
it’s self perpetuating. 
it will stop one day, 
irony is it’s also by war —
lion and lamb cuddling 
worn out by enemies applauding themselves,
perhaps the finger pointing 
will cease,
and prayers for the enemy isn’t needed. 
children won’t need to duck.