Romanticizing Trauma

The war movies,

children battling one another,

Romanticizing trauma.

 

Wounded men

Screaming for their mothers.

Praying to make it through tonight.

 

These days of war,

bring no peace of mind,

Gases, bombs and bullets.

 

No honor in killing

another father or son.

Someone's husband or brother will never come home.

 

The war games.

The screaming.

Who will make it through tonight?