Discouraging News

The media has no interest in stopping war, only using it to boost ratings.

Things can be so discouraging when I see the news

people are dying and incapable of getting along

we call on our nations to bring an end to this abuse

but it never works as leaders are too headstrong.

 

Children grow up in the middle of an eastern battlefield

they’re afraid to go out for pizza or play at local parks

the only life they know is constricted and concealed

suffering from the politics of presidents and monarchs.

 

Habitats are destroyed and lives are literally torn apart

as pictures of their horror are beamed into our homes

by heartless networks who have no intention to thwart

the killers who are sending out the planes and drones.

 

I hope one day we can talk and see this violence cease

people can be bombed to pieces, but never into peace.