War

A poem I was inspired to write a while back, just displaying the violence and tragedy that is prevalent in war.

War

War by definition is utter devastation

It comes like a plague and sweeps through a nation

It goes unrecognized for the disease that it is

So without getting it sorted people pass it down to their kids

War makes the nation get high like a powerful drug

Internal feuds forgotten the nation bands together in love

High off of war the people think our nation is heaven

Then the high gets brought down like the towers in 9/11

As we look across the battlefields which are simply fields full of blood and carnage

Littered all over the floor are hearts, livers, brains, and arteries

Families get that feared knock on the door

Where there told siblings, parents, partners, and kids won’t be coming home no more

Homes become broken, lives fall apart

People start to ask, why did this war ever start

Whole families are lost, and the nation is sympathising

But the war carries on and the death toll is still rising

Until one day over the air waves you hear the war is done

That at long last after all this time the troops are returning that are gone

On the news you see the nation’s leaders excited behaviour

And you realize that the war seems to have ended in our favour

But how are you going to tell the families of the lost ones that the war is won

That the country is better off now, when their loved ones have gone

Cause in their eyes victory came at far to great a cost

So as far as their concerned both sides must have lost

Reviews

[Madison]

I love how you showed what truly happens during and after war. I loved the perspective if it. Good Job!

[MomzillaNC]

A true perspective of war.

[Lizardo]

Incredible poem, I love it and it really speaks the truth
Good words and I like everything about it
Great Job! keep it up