God's Recreation

The young men give their lives
as if in play,
as if a song of utmost melancholy
were still too strong
for words,
hence forced to action.

So young men die;
and so this age becomes an age of dying,
their death made real
by need for human action,
so death becomes
a cry for sweet revenge.

And what revenge accomplishes
is yet more death.
Love never becomes an option
that could restore
the innocence all parties are born with...