Innocent death

So tell me what war is

Why should we repeatedly take?

Lives of the innocent people

Surely it’s their leader we hate

Many places are governed

Under no control of their own

They have no vote, no democracy

When their countries fight they’re alone

Refugees with no home or food

Left to die with no grave

Innocence in the name of death

Justice spelt with letters of the slave

Maybe practice is the way forward

Yet, can’t it be resolved over a table

Rather than in some bloody battle

Please don’t tell me nobody’s able