War’s Great Freedom

How many times must the far reaching hand of war stretch out,
And steal the lives of young men of great valour?
Why must war triumph in the conflicts of men,
While diplomacy fails in its efforts to avert conflict?

War is an immortal which is hated by all except the devil.
War is a crime ensnared by Satan upon mankind.
Mankind must fight the raging force of war.
Not with strength of arms but strength of heart.

Raging cannons roar and bomb’s blast.
Men come to meet the ground of God.
They are free at last.
Free of the work of Satan that is war in all it’s forms.

-Niall Clarke