The Saddest of Truths

The Saddest of Truths
Daniel Segura
4/28/08

The bluest of blues comes not from the broodiest of youth
but the sagest of the aged for they’ve seen that untruth not sooth
shall send to war the liveliest of life
spreading the blight of fight’s strife.

As the richest debate the merits of might
over the rightness of Man’s rights
to send our youngest to fight,
the lowliest will lose their dark life’s only lights.

The quick bearers of military’s braun
shant keep their futures for long.
They’ll enforce the brutality of might
as they raise their arms and take sight.

And the World’s future has lost
at the greatest compounding of cost
those who could’ve worked to unleash
a flood of Love’s tidings and real peace.