Another Quiet Sunday Amid A Noisy World

I observed no remembrance of the dead
of I-don't-know-how-many wars this Sunday,
since the war the remembrance was meant
to commemorate most ended 117 years ago.

The Imperial War Museum website
lists 33 wars that have started since 1900. 
That is surely a conservative estimate,
6 of the wars are listed as 'ongoing' -
most of them have been ongoing since 2014.

The oldest ongoing conflict started in 1948.
If it is ever settled, then how it is settled
will be the cause more regret than the world
is prepared to admit to, or rebuild from.

We may as well call Remembrance Day
'World Rearmament Day' for all that we are
capable of changing what we see as our nature,
and think of the day as a breather from the cycle
in which the arms industries across the world
become the source of an ever increasing wealth
for the few, increasing the misery of the many. 

The weapons will be sold 'to renew the worlds defences'.
The stated aim will be peace, as part of  cycles of rest
from war - the lull before the next storm - where war
becomes sold as 'justified'. Again, and again, and again....