Cover Photo by Mark R. Day

Friday, April 15, 2011

Poem "The Word of War 1861"

Oh! hard set word of divisive chord
Vile, visceral, villainy which severer all bonds
What mad passion possess; the minds of good men
To make war on their brother for a word


Oh! hard set word, destroyer of peace
Violent, vexatious, vengeful, merciless idiom
Privation and murder thy legacy shall be
Humanity lost in the language of hate

And thy name is:

Slavery . . . . Slavery . . . . Slavery . . .


Written by Mark R. Day 4/15/2011 copyright by Mark Day all rights reserved

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