World War One

the feeling of war

 Walking through the trenches

Laden with heavy weapons

While people are drowning next to me

 

Off to fight in a war

My little sister’s boyfriend lied to get in

To be heroic for his lady, only thirteen years old

 

I miss my family and friends; I thought that this would be an adventure

But it’s nothing but a cold, hard war

 

People are shot down next to me

But I must pass them by

Later to move them into piles

Waiting for their families to know

When they get a sheet of paper in the mail

 

Huge, cold droplets of rain hitting every part of our bodies

As I trudge through the trenches with my stomach growling

 

Surrounded by such a stench it cannot be named

Filled of unwashed people, human filth, and rotting flesh

 

Swallowed by bodies

Rotting and mangled from the war in which they fought

 

We shoot our guns aiming to kill

What is this place without peace?

A place filled with terror and determination

We are killing our neighbors

People some of us know…or knew

 

How many more must die for us to realize

That this is not the answer?

 

When will it end, this fight, we fight?

Will it even be the last?

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

I'm only seventeen, but I seem to have a better outlook than our government? This is a very touchy subject with me because I believe that war should never be and I've takenhistory and world issues, and bnot once have i seen a good reason for war

Reviews

[LizardKing]

yeah it is a really good poem and yeah war is unnecisarry but with out it evil will run the world but you are very talented my poem writing buddy thanks for showing me this site

[KatiePie]

I agree, War is a meaningless waste of life.
Never once has a country invaded America, and the one time they did it was when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and that wasn't to take over America, it was to end the Blockade.
Dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was the most.. forgive me for saying this but 'idiotic' thing President Truman did.
I won't hold the other countries accountable for what they do, because I don't live in them, but I don't understand how killing innocent civilians is war, Hiroshima, London, Afghanistan, Grenada, Somalia, Vietnam, Auschwitz, Gettysburg, Iraq. It's ridiculous.