When Will It End?

When the carnivore
becomes a herbivore
and the lion and lamb
sleep upon the floor
then man will war no more.

A storyteller told me
of when she was a girl,
kneeling at the cross
and praying with her mother
for the next meal
and being thankful to God
that there would
not be another war anymore
because the weapons
had become too terrible
ever to use again.

When the carnivore
becomes a herbivore
and the lion and lamb
sleep upon the floor
then man will war no more.

Moms can be wrong of course.
Maybe the common man
just needed hope to
cling to through a hungry decade.
God bless the people who believed
We could talk instead of fighting.

When the carnivore
becomes a herbivore
and the lion and lamb
sleep upon the floor
then man will war no more.

Now the economy is in decline,
and there is far more War
in this generation of mine
than in our father’s time.
It makes me sad to realize,
that no matter how we pray for peace,
we still see the tears in mother’s eyes’
who have lost sons and daughters.
Every generation has ‘its’ own war,
but why, I’m not sure.

When the carnivore
becomes a herbivore
and the lion and lamb
sleep upon the floor
then man will war no more.

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Lou Marin, a Christian grateful for Jesus’ gift to him, was born and raised in the western hills of Maine, then spent 20 plus years wandering the country and world in the United States Air Force. Maine Department of American Legion’s Historian, he is a photographer and stringer for The Maine Trust for Local News, published poet and short story writer who pens faith-based devotionals. He lives in Rumford, Maine. He is author of an anthology of poems based upon his military career entitled “Dimly Seen Through The Mists,” and a book of faith-based poems entitled “My Lighthouse In Troubled Times,” available through Pen It! Publications.

Lou can be reached at mbsphotog@yahoo.com or his Facebook Page.

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