A War Is Raging

A war is raging

A new kind of warfare

Not nuclear

Not chemical 

Not conventional 

But emotional

Our weapons of mass destruction

Aren't nuclear bombs

Or nerve gas

Instead they are blades

Ropes

Pills

Guns

Buildings

Our weapon is suicide 

And we've lost control of it

It claims as many lives,

Every single day, as September 11th 

The casualties aren't soldiers

Or foreign civilians

They are OUR fathers,

Our mothers,

Our brothers

Our sisters,

Our friends.

This poem is about: 
Me
My community
My country
Our world

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