THEY COULDN'T SEE

The war went on

Went on for several years.

Went on ignoring

All our human tears.

All the great war lords

Played their game of war

While all the lesser people

Were forced to suffer more.

They all claimed they'd stop it.

None of them even tried.

All they did was stand there

While all their soldiers died.

The war went on for several years

The armies dwindled down.

Till all the kingly war lords

Were stripped of bloody crowns.

They battled then among themselves

At least those left alive.

Look at all the lives they took

But still they did survive.

But, in all their foolishness

They managed to join the rest.

In all their blindness they couldn't see

No one can forcibly be best.

To be the best or better

You need love and an open heart.

But it seems all those people

Had been slaughtered from the start.

So now all you lords of war

You rulers over men.

You had to fight as children

And caused the world to end.

By William C. Scheel II

          (Bill)       (Shale)

1970’s

Written in protest to Viet Nam