thrown stones

nasty stares
taunting words
standoffs by the bike racks
each group with their posse
ready for the throwdown

you stay on your side
and i’ll stay on mine
but we get the monkeybars…

status quo
fragile peace
cliques sticking to their playground turf
sticks and stones might break bones
but names will never hurt…

first comes the scraped knee
then the black eye
then stones begin to fly
nevermind where they fall
it’s all collateral damage

we have to fight back
or the other side wins
the battle cry calls
stop throwing stones
or we’ll tell the teacher!

wrong
right
to the ones in the middle
it doesn’t matter
so long as the stones stop flying…

[12:45 PM]
Day eight of the Lebanon War.

It’s getting tedious now, watching the news, hearing the usual talking heads going back and forth and around and around with their usual recriminations about which side needs to do what. Despite being Jewish and obviously pro-Israel.. I’m already at the point that I think there needs to be a stop to the whole mess. It’s gone from the issues of last week to everyone agreeing on the cease-fire, but the order of events being what’s now in the air…

And in the meantime, Hezbullah kills Israeli civilians indiscriminately with helter-skelter rocket-fire, and the IDF kills Lebanese civilians indiscriminately while hunting the terrorists. *sigh*

Devil in the details and all.

It doesn’t matter, as I said, who’s wrong and right, as long as the stones stop flying…