Soldiers against the war
Whoever wears a uniform
should well know
and then hate
this howling of war
coming out from certain throats
so mellifluous and insane
There is no way on this Earth
with bloodshed and fight
no chance to restore peace
making victims and debris
When a country chooses war
like an ungenerous mother
gives the lives of her sons
to the mercy of death
Please let’s go out in the streets
shouting all our dismay
you have nothing to lose
what a soldier could gain
are just a medal or two
as only embrace
a flag wrapping the grave.
Soldiers Painting Peace Sign -- Banksy
Whoever wears a uniform
should well know
and then hate
this howling of war
coming out from certain throats
so mellifluous and insane
There is no way on this Earth
with bloodshed and fight
no chance to restore peace
making victims and debris
When a country chooses war
like an ungenerous mother
gives the lives of her sons
to the mercy of death
Please let’s go out in the streets
shouting all our dismay
you have nothing to lose
what a soldier could gain
are just a medal or two
as only embrace
a flag wrapping the grave.
Soldiers Painting Peace Sign -- Banksy
In 1958 Gerald Holtom, a World War II conscientious objector, designed a symbol for the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War to use in their march against British hydrogen bomb tests. It was based on the N and D signs of the semaphore alphabet used by sailors to communicate via flags and was soon adopted by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. But Holtom also claimed that "I drew myself: the representation of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya's peasant before the firing squad. I formalized the drawing into a line and put a circle round it." In Francisco Goya's "The Third of May 1808" the peasant's arms were pointed upwards -- like Holtom's original design, which would have use the semaphore U for "unilateral" instead of the N for "nuclear." The American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. participated in the 1958 march in the UK, and one of his close collaborators Bayard Rustin adapted it for the US civil rights movement, but it became widely used by protesters against the war in Vietnam. It was also used by Czech activists against the 1968 Soviet invasion and by South African demonstrators against apartheid. It has also been displayed by environmentalists, feminists, and gay rights supporters.
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