From the Editors Desk
WHR August 2014
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
CIVILISATION, WAR, SAVAGERY
BY
SUSUMU TAKIGUCHI
giving birth
to a monster, after
Little Boy
pleasurable sunday flying…
rudely interrupted: the unknown
attacking squadron
golf balls
not reaching the incoming
A6M2 Model 21 Zeros
the winter surprise attack…
preceded by a secret plan to launch
summer surprise attacks on Japan
keep your enemy
guessing…any attack will be
a surprise
USS Hornet,
releasing hornets for revenge air raid
on Tokyo
the Japanese,
stunned by the dare-devil Doolittle,
did little to respond
much better
do enemies know than
you think
truth, however,
may never come out as
we all bury it
digging the truth…
not popular at all in
peace time
hiding truth…
the topmost duty in the topsy-turvy
wartime
truth…
the only hope, getting no chance
to be ours
fire for lunch,
suddenly blown out
by a giant fireball
an eye for an eye…
Fat Man joined Little Boy
for utter destruction
no green grass,
prediction went to say, would grow
ah! but it did
the new generation,
replacing the old, would shape
the new world to come
peace will
return where the situation looks
hopeless
old enemies
walk side by side along
the railway grass
old hatred
and new friendship cohabit: deep in
the war veteran’s mind
new hatred
and old misunderstanding intermingle: the birth
of new internecine war
the common recipe
to cook war after war in
perpetual repetition
sports ground
and picnic sites all turning
to killing fields
genocide…
nothing has changed since
time immemorial
under the beautiful name
of beautiful concepts, ugly
atrocities repeated
religious wars,
preserve not of ancient history: then,
who creates them?
money grabber, land grabber,
fame grabber, woman grabber, power grabber…
no end of causes of war
civilisation, just so…
savagery of us humans
remains untameable
a mother’s face…
showing nothing more
to lose in the rubble
a baby’s face…
a tale of all the events of its life
snatched
every war
comes and goes, but war itself
never will
causes of war…
all within us and perpetual till
the end of time
if we seriously wish to end
all wars, we shall need to wage wars
together, to end us all