• "When Elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers"
    ---Kikuyu Proverb

    Throughout time, the low have been crushed by the mighty, without even a second thought. When the politically powerful wage wars, it is those lower than them who are the ones that take the hit. The citizens of warring nations are the ones that fight. The citizens are the ones that go without. The citizens are the ones that die for something that they might not even want.


    tab When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. But, when the elephants fight, do they blame the grass for allowing itself to be trampled? Do the elephants notice when the grass cries out in agony? Do they intentionally crush the grass if it tries to retaliate?
    tab When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. When the grass fights, it only wounds itself. The grass, in its effort to fight, drains its own resources. When the elephants fight, they take the grass's resources as their own. With this vicious truth, we know that something must be done. If the grass cannot take a stand on its own, will the elephants listen to its plight? Will they even notice that the grass is trying to make a point? The grass cannot save itself; a savior is needed.
    tab When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. The elephants take their stance, but when the grass wails in protest, who will acknowledge the grass?
    When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. The grass has long been waiting for anyone willing to be an audience to its piteous tale. What if a young elephant, whose ears are much lower to the ground than the adults, hears the grass's plea for a savior? Although young, the elephant is still of the same stature as the adult elephants. If the young elephant informs the adult elephants of what is happening to the grass, will they listen and understand, or will they brush it off as a child's ramblings? Will the young be heard, or will they remain as powerless as the grass?
    tab When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. Who will intervene? The grass cannot help itself, and the child has been brushed aside. How will the grass be saved? Frustrated with the inability to make a difference, will the child give up? Will the child decide that if it cannot do anything to change what's happening that it should forget about it? Will the child, once it is dismissed as being incapable of noticing such important things, decide that it should just believe what it has been told by the adults? That it should deem the cries of the weak and helpless grass as nonexistent? After all, the adults must know more than the child. They are older and thus obviously wiser. Will the child submit? Will the child travel down the same road as previous elephants? Will the child discard its knowledge of the grass's troubles as it matures, becoming as blind to the realities of the world as the elephants before it?
    tab When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. Once an adult, the elephant's memories of the grass's pain have long since faded. When the elephant takes the place its warring ancestors had once occupied, therefore continuing the fight, will it ever remember the grass? When the elephant's own child hears the grass's story and tells its fighting parent, will memories return? Will the circle keep its course until the end of time? Will the grass forever suffer?