“Stay the line” I hear them say;

stay the line, you’ll win the day.”

Each day I see the system fall;

a culture now against the wall.

Two thousand years is not much time

to reach these depths – our cultures crime.

So many trodden now beneath

our pounding hooves, our snarling teeth.

What will be next, when we’re no more;

will there ever be an end to war?