RAW

The words we use

hold deeper truths,

which often are ignored,

if even known,

or recognised,

as what they really are.

A word like 'war'

seems simple,

and yet we know

it's truth,

and when

we turn it on itself;

reveals it yet again.

For war is only

ever raw, in tooth

and claw and death;

as something basic,

backward - untouched

by wiser Self.
However much 

we tell ourselves,

that war will bring

us good - the hidden

heart within the word

puts lie in bed 

with death.