What is all this fighting over statues for?

From: leela ellis
Sent: Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 08:09:11 AM EDT
Subject: How About Two?

Statues
One black
One white
Staring northward
Into the night
Eyes wide and haunted
With certainty, the fright
That no child will return
From the the burning hatred
Of the fight
The mothers know
There is no gain in war
Only endless injury
Endless pain.
What is all this
 Fighting over statues for?