Humans are Animals, too.

 

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What happens to sunlight over bombs?
Is it friend or foe?  Or, like me,
is it an inactive witness we think is neutral
because it does nothing?
 
I think of psalms.
But what praises can we write
for any sides of today’s wars?
Surely all sides claim God.
 
What counts as winning?
A tally of the dead?  A promise
That no country will attempt to push
any other country into the sea?
 
Sunlight here brings things to life.
Neutral, it is nature assisting nature.
Where in all the bombs and strife
can plants and animals find pasture?

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