Poem of the Month, April 2012

I Want to Kill You War was selected as one of the three winning Gift Poems for the World Poetry Canada & International Peace Festival, which will take place in Vancouver in May 2012.

 

I WANT TO KILL YOU WAR

By Ada Aharoni

I want to kill you war, forever,
not like a phoenix
that always comes back.
I want to kill you war
and I don’t know how
and I don’t know why
all the people of the world
don’t join hands
to kill you war –
you the greatest murderer
of them all.

They just know how to kill
the one or the two
or the hundreds and the thousands,
but not you,
you the greatest killer
of them all.

So, we will kill you war,
before you kill us.
This is real deterrence strategy,
not the useless liar one we’re so busy with.
All the peace marchers of the world
Will take the heavy metal cases
full of nuclear wastes
and dump them over War’s head,
the cases will leak, as usual,

and War will dissolve back into his archaic bottle
where he belongs –

We shut the cork.

 

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