Soldiers!

 I don't want

to be an emperor

I don't want

 to rule or conquer

I want to 

help everyone

Be it Hindu, Muslim,

Sikh or Christian

Be it black, brown,

gay or lesbian

We, humans want 

to help eachother

We want to live by 

eachother's ecstasy

And not to 

eachother's misery

We don't want to 

hate or despise anyone

In this world, 

there is room for everyone

Good earth is rich and 

provide for everyone

Way of life is free, 

beautiful and easy

But we have lost

the way, simply

Greed has poisoned

men's souls

Just like

To my white shirt, bleach

has given many holes

Greed has barricaded

 the world with hate

Goose stepped us 

into misery and bloodshed

We have developed speed

But

We have shut ourselves in

to scream and bleed

Machinery that gives

us abundance

has left us in want 

and absence

Our knowledge has 

made us cynical

Our cleverness has

made  us unkind

and inhospitable

More than machinery, 

we need humanity

More than cleverness, 

we need kindness 

and gentleness

Airplanes have 

brought us closer

These inventions

have a nature 

that cries out for

the men's goodness

for the men's oneness

for the universal brotherhood

for the universal humanhood

Even now

my voice is reaching

 millions of despairing

 men and women, 

 victims of a system 

 that makes men torture 

 and imprison innocent 

 To those who are listening

 Get away from despairing

misery that is now upon us

is the passing of greed

And is dangerous

Is the men's bitterness

who fear the way of

human progress

Hate of men will fly

away in the black sky

Dictator will die

And the power

they took from us

Will return to us

Soldiers don't give

Yourselves to the brutes

Who despise you

who enslave you; 

who regiment you

who tell you what to do,

what to think

and what to feel! 

Who drill you, 

diet you, 

treat you like cattle(tethered) 

use you as cannon fodder

 Don't give yourselves 

 to these unnatural men 

 with machine minds

 and machine hearts! 

 You are not machines 

 that rattle

 you are not cattle

 you are men! 

 a gentlemen

 You have the love

 of humanity

 And your hearts

 are not dirty

 You don't hate! 

 Only the unloved hate; 

  the unloved 

  and the unnatural. 

    

Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! 

Fight for liberty! 

 You, the people, 

 have the power, 

 the power to create

 machines that are

 Remorseless

 You have the power

 to create the happiness! 

  

You, the people, 

have the power

to make this life

free and beautiful, 

to make this life 

adventure so wonderful

Then 

in the name of democracy, 

let us use that power

Let us all unite

Let us fight for a new world, 

a decent world 

that will give

men a chance to work,

 youth a future 

 and old age a security

   

Let us fight

 to free the world! 

 To do away 

 with national barriers! 

 To do away with greed, 

 with hate carriers!

 Let us fight for a world 

 of reason, 

 a world where science 

 and progress will lead

  to all men's happiness

  to the colorful seasons

  Soldiers, 

  in the name of democracy, 

  in the name of liberty

  let us all unite

  let us spread the light

  let us do the right

© Priya Jain