Promptly 4

Oh Yeah, Peace, Man

Oh Yeah, Peace, Man

Oh, love that bomb and its obliteration,
celebrate the curse of abomination,
anaesthetise with our extermination,
let amnesia be your instigation.

You can march or even shout aloud,
a single protest or in a crowd,
opinionate and deregulate,
drift off to sleep in some drug you ate.

But you can’t unlearn what now you know,
the mind has you forever in tow,
our course is set, direction chosen,
our sentence clear, in stone letters frozen.


Line count: 12
Rhymed. Oh, and the syllable count is interesting. It has meter after all.
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 15 2023
Prompt: A colourful peace sign.