growing up, i read a lot of books and a lot of poetry written by “anonymous”. i’m not sure why, and i don’t like it, because now i can’t add those writers to my favourite authors list.
there is one piece, though, that Touched me in 2011, and still does when i read it now. (i keep poems i like very near and dear to my heart so yes, i’ve kept this for 6 years). here it is:
i’ve been told
that people in the army
do more by 7:00am
than i do
in an entire day
but if i wake
at 6:59am
and turn to you
to trace the outline of your lips
with mine
i will have done enough
and killed no one
in the process.
this probably only touched me because of my constant debates with myself on the concept of war. the piece does a good job of throwing shade at those who fight in war, while raining heights of praise on the subject of the piece. a beautiful marriage of topics, i think. but tell me, and for this i really want your engagement: do you think war is a necessary part of being an advanced world, and that we should spend all that we do on building defence teams and mechanisms? or do you think that war is only created to bolster the intentions of powerful people? what do you think?
