Maybe There's a Good Excuse for Fighting

June 2, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Memorial Day, which was observed on May 29.

Today’s poem is a Memorial Day poem about the legacy of pain even of righteous wars.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Maybe there's a good excuse for fighting;

Every era has its righteous wars.

Maybe wrongs require bloody righting,

Or self-defense gives warriors just cause.

Remember, though, the legacy of pain,

Intense and passionate, a world of wounds,

Agony unveiled again, again,

Livid in the light of lonely rooms.

Death is a relief, but think of those

Alive with grief, whose loved ones lie in rows,

Youth on youth in neat, well-ordered tombs.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/maybe4.html. For more Memorial Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/memorialdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Memorial Day

May 29: Make a Little Time for Public Mourning

May 30: Make My Death a Canticle for Peace

May 31: Maybe Grief Needs Ritual, as Music

June 1: Maybe It Was Worth It, Maybe Not

June 2: Maybe There’s a Good Excuse for Fighting