<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441307" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Put Down Your Weapons</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Put down your weapons! <br>What do you defend? <br>Your right to bury natives, <br>Upon their own land? <br>What images of grandeur<br>Do you perceive? <br>Bugle calls from cavalier mountings...<br>Will not come forth descending, <br>With surrounding cavalries<br>Conquesting in glee and bravado! <br>What messages do you send...<br>To ancestors awakened from this grief? <br>Your ways to conquer peace, <br>Has been defeated by barbaric imaginings! <br>Put down your weapons! <br>The alarms that ring, <br>Come from your own shores you sell...<br>And leave abandoned and unfenced! <br>Your backyards are beginning to burn in flames! <br>And yet you stake claim to treasures not yours.<br>Not worthy of the blood you shed, <br>Or interests of those displeased by the cost of guilt! <br>Put down your weapons, <br>Or eternally bow your head, <br>In sorrow with no guarantee...<br>You will be recognized, <br>At your own doorstep that has been sold <br>Prior to your return <br>Of any valor professed to have earned! <br>These are not those days to relive in glory!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441307" data-title="Put Down Your Weapons de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Put down your weapons! What do you defend? Your right to bury natives, Upon their own land? What images of grandeur Do you perceive? Bugle calls from cavalier mountings... Will not come forth descending, With surrounding cavalries Conquestin..."></div> </div> </div>

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