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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2005-05-04 10:40 AM

Love –
can you feel the feeling it gives?
Wonderful thing, love, isn’t it –
so warm, so safe, so comforting...
So... well, loving, isn’t it!

What great things people do
in the name of love!
A man marries a woman
in the name of love
and she goes with it
for the same reason:
when she is found beaten to death
this is what he’s got to say:
“I loved the bitch so much
  I had to kill her –
  she threatened to leave me.”

People love their nation
and in the blink of an eye,
they’re off to war, bombing, shooting, killing
all in the name of patriot love
(The raping, pillaging and looting –
those are just the fringe benefits.).

People love their God of Love
and wouldn’t you know it?
The only way they can find peace
and express their deepest love for enemies
is by slaughtering their opponents –
even if these love the same God...

What was it they said about love –
         “Ain’t love grand!”

Ah well, it makes great headlines
(especially if the rich and famous are involved)
It sells wedding dresses, magazines, flowers
and weapons of mass destruction.
(Did you wonder what the flowers were for?)
Shall we give it another round of applause?

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

1 posted 2005-05-04 10:42 AM

Indeed.....it sure is

well constructed thoughts.
Enjoyed.

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

2 posted 2005-05-04 12:00 PM

whew, this surely drives a directive...immensly enjoyed...bravo!

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2005-05-04 12:17 PM

good one

of course, I knew it would be, just by the title

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

4 posted 2005-05-05 12:48 PM

"People love their nation
and in the blink of an eye,
they’re off to war, bombing, shooting, killing
all in the name of patriot love
(The raping, pillaging and looting –
those are just the fringe benefits.)."

your right to speak these words were won by the same (as the ones you refer to above).

I am sure it would have been a much better world with Hitler at the realm....

I don't believe war/killing is the first line of defense but I certainly believe it may very well have to be...after all I don't go about my daily life killing, but rest assured someone hurts one of my kids.....

my opinion aside...I do like how you write..

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

5 posted 2005-05-05 07:35 PM

Not sure if I understand this...in the example you give of a man killing his wife for love...it would more appropriately be described as the actions of a controlling and manipulating man that started to believe in his own heart that she belonged to him... not love at all...James

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