A Prayer, A Plea to Mothers Everywhere

 

Eternal Eclipse Gaza Strip
 Mixed Media
James M. Frase-White 3/14/2024

Mothers Please

You gave us

you give children

life

Yet you still engage 

with HIM/HER

in the game of death

are you not better than that

to play this game of warrior

as if he/she has the power

to

Kill or be Killed?

It works both ways

THEY  do it too

play the I am God game

To build or destroy

which is the pleasure

of your countenance?

have you not seen the sea of crops

to feed, to give life, sustenance?

The buildings to house, feed, supply, fix

You would rather have them destroyed

in order to starve

in quiet or violent painful death?

Your/their hands can grow, build, repair, maintain

yet you let them bomb instead

Oh, Mothers, be Mothers

and teach/show your

child/adult to live

not for an idea, of power, of ego

often due to THEM you ask to lead you

for bravery that does not exist

it is no honor, to kill to die to live that death bath

to see the end

with a little brazen hole

a little metal stone

that takes their/your life

and turns it into nothingness

the hole

that digs a grave

that is NEVER built of love

not the breast of mother

but the beast 

as the vultures

in the mansions, in human arrogance

swoon, swarm, float beautifully

in the sky above 

the demise of your child

death

of the life you gave to us

8 March 2024

©james m. frase-white