I Do Not Want To Read Of War ©2022 Louise Gallagher I do not want to read of war I do not want to hear the stories look at the photos watch the videos see the bodies lying in the streets the animals left behind and killed the homes destroyed the buildings demolished I do not want to know of its power to desecrate diminish and destroy Dreams. Hope. Life. I do not want to look away. To look away is to deny the horror of what is happening to people just like me who live and work and love and play who walk their dogs and hold the hands of the ones they love and caress the faces of their children and grandchildren who go to work and drive to the grocery store or walk to their favourite coffee shop to spend an hour or two visiting with friends. I do not want to cry for the fathers, sons and daughters who put down the tools of their trades, their studies and their work to don battle dress and guns. I do not want to weep for the children and their mothers and the elderly and disabled with whom they huddle in bomb-shelters and barns and basements waiting for release waiting for a time when bombs do not desecrate diminish and destroy Dreams. Hope. Life. But I must look and see and bear witness I must acknowledge what is happening so that I can hold this hurting world in arms and words and thoughts that do not desecrate diminish or destroy Dreams. Hope. Life. So that perhaps, one day, the children and their mothers the grandparents and disabled, the fathers, sons and daughters can return home to rebuild their lives in peace.
Dare Boldly 
Breaks my heart, dear Louise…and your words touch me deeply as they resonate what lies in my heart. It almost seems impossible that all of this can be going on in this day and age. It is indeed hard to look – and yet we must because we need to know that it exists so we can get busy sending out love and peace to our fractured world.
I hope you are well, my friend. Thank you for always expressing your heart with such eloquence. ❤
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Thank you dear Lorrie — yes — we must get busy sending out love and peace. Much gratitude for you. ❤
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Exactly.
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Oh how I liked this
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This is exactly how I feel. Your poetry nailed it. It’s so awful. Just like it was in Syria where 5M are still living in “camps” in squalor. May this not be the end result for Ukraine. But once it’s over the rebuilding. It’s like the Second World War but in only one country. Hugs. Bernie
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Thank you Bernie. Yes, exactly as it was and continues to be in Syria. And yes, let’s hope this is not the end rsults for Ukraine. Hugs back. ❤
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I loved your blog today you expressed so beautifully what I feel about this war i am so pleased it is exactly as i fee about it feel guilty that I just am turning the Tv off with tears iin my eyes and pain in my heart
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Hugs my dear friend. I too turn off the new with tears in my eyes and pain in my heart. ❤ ❤ ❤
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