Please teach your children
Empathy and respect
Despite what generations
Have tainted, spoiled and wrecked
All those damaged men
Returning from the war
Is all the pain they carry
Worth what they were fighting for?
Say a prayer for those who lie
In muddy unmarked graves
Without a name, or wooden cross
Inscribed with, “Jesus Saves”
Please teach your children
Empathy and respect
Despite what they may endure
From prejudice and neglect
Those faces in the Pentagon
Just see numbers on a page
The games that they play now
Lack the honor of bygone days
The weapons are too lethal
The intentions all too cruel
And the media propaganda
Adds gasoline to the fuel
Please teach your children
Empathy and respect
So they will cry out in the darkness
Spreading light that care reflects
Only then can we evolve
Into angels that rise above
Only then can we build a world
Infused with peace and love
Please teach your children
Empathy and respect
Despite what generations
Have tainted, spoiled and wrecked
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