NOT ALL ROADS

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NOT ALL ROADS

We could settle our differences peacefully with a soccer match

Flipping a coin, spinning a wheel of fortune

A game of chess, using a magic 8 ball, an AI program

We would have to all agree on the method

However, we can never all agree on anything 

Even if we say we will all agree we will not abide by the answer

If it goes against us

Whichever side lost would reject the answer

The verdict was rigged, the program flawed

Some reason to refuse to abide by the former agreement

How can we force them to accept the answer?

By waging war on them until they complied

Do all roads lead to war?

It would seem that way to territorial apes whose might makes right

We all agree that the brutality of war is an abomination no one wants

Until now the best minds have not devised a way to avoid war

The masses and the power hungry have not listened to the peacemakers

For the time being

The path to the Garden is overgrown with the weeds of hatred, revenge, outrage

While the path to war is tramped bare by the armies of the brave

Asserting their territorial dominance and defending hearth and home

Endlessly

I do not despair though because we all clearly see the problem

Homo sapiens might be chest beaters, but they are also the problem solvers

Eventually we will find a way to prioritize peace, remove the troublemakers

Find a better way than the crude might makes right way we are stuck in now

We will eventually walk the path of peace because it is the only true path

To the future

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