What would happen if we stayed home today?

If the armourers stayed home and played with their boys.
If the snipers stayed home and helped the girls with their toys.

If the airmen stayed home and steam-cleaned their cars.
While sailors wrote letters to their Mas and their Pas.

If the soldiers stayed in barracks and polished their boots
And officers sewed medals on their Remembrance Day suits.

If the generals stayed abed with their mistresses
And the admirals spent the day just playing Battleships.

And the politicians stayed home and counted their bribes
And not spreading hate, so everyone survives.

While military planners daydream of their secretaries
There’s no-one needed to cut new graves in cemeteries.

And orphans stayed home and counted lost lives.
And we just stayed home and loved our husbands and wives.

What if we all just stayed home today?
Would the world end?
Or the pain go away?