War where peace should grow.!!
Elites have chosen violence
in the name of reconciliation,
planting problems where solutions should grow,
calling ignorance the measure of intelligence.
Decision-makers fled the fight
instead of standing with the few,
preferring war where peace once lived,
both sides certain they are right.
In Gaza the ceasefires smoulder still,
ruins stretch where homes once stood;
tens of thousands buried deep
while leaders trade competing truths.
Across Lebanon’s shattered south
and Syria’s uneasy new dawn,
Israeli strikes and lasting presence
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echo the same unfinished war.
At the eighty-first Assembly hall
the powerful speak of trust restored,
yet Abbas is barred from the chamber floor
while Netanyahu faces empty seats and walkouts.
Guterres warns the two-state dream
is vanishing before our eyes;
Iran’s fragile peace and Hormuz risks
remind the world how quickly fire spreads.
The powerful rewrite the rules
to suit the hands that hold the pen,
then blame the broken for the break
and call their absence leadership again.
Yet every choice that turns from care
leaves deeper cracks across the land;
the minorities they left behind
still wait for someone who will stand.
