I am the glowing phoenix, the iolite phoenix,
the blue flame, the evolving child;
I am eternity summed up in the finite,
The flame that burns when the embers grow cold,
"Only the dead have seen the end of war"... Plato.
These words came as a bomb shell that made me think of the First World War, the war named "the war to end all wars", yet following that war has been the Second world war, and yet many civil wars....