The Death of the Innocents

On the horrors of war.

The Death of the Innocents

 

By Elton Camp

 

About politics or government I take no position

In this, yet another, “horrors of war” composition

 

My memories of the Second World War are few

My time was occupied with what little kids do

 

The reasons for rationing were regularly reported

That there was a foreign war that must be supported

 

The attack on Pearl Harbor I don’t remember at all

Or that President Roosevelt for war on Japan did call

 

That atomic bombs were dropped, I didn’t know

But learned of it in school much later, though

 

Playing and riding my tricycle was the thing to do

A Hiroshima child my age was then doing it too

 

The Japanese child, I haven’t the slightest doubt

As with me, didn’t know what the war was about

 

I think, with horror, of that child’s searing pain

If he survived, lifelong scars were sure to remain

 

To praise war, some feel there are reasons to try

Let’s not forget about all the innocents who die