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Blood stained tears run down my face
as I sit here alone waiting for the land mines to blow
This war is horrible, so wicked, so cruel
It seems like a hundred years ago when I watched my best friend
Die
Kill or be killed those are the only choices that I have
Never do I blink for fear that I will die
New recruits come everyday, eager to join this hell that we call "war"
Still they make good soldiers, for they still believe they are immortal
I have seen and done a lot of things
that haunt me during the night
Everytime I shut my eyes I see myself
taking that soldier's life
My family sends me letters
they tell me that I am brave
they tell me that they are proud of me, of the sacrifices I have made
Yet I wonder would they be proud of me knowing what I had done?
I had the choice to save a boy but yet I took his life
without a second thought
I pray to god every night
asking for forgivness for what I have done
I ask him to take care of the boy and
to tell him that I am sorry
As I kneel in the trenches with my soldiers all around me
waiting for the bombs to rain down
I wonder to myself how many of my men will die with honors today?
There is no honor in killing your enemy when you realie they had a life
a family that loved them and are waiting for them to come home
People dont realize the coldness of war untill they are handed a gun
and told to fire at may
As my men are blown to bits and pieces I ask myself when?
When will this hell ever end?

- Title: The horrors of war
- Artist: KCO_rocks
- Description: A poem of war. I wrote it because I pictured myself in a soldiers shoes and what it would be like for me.
- Date: 12/09/2008
- Tags: wars bravery
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Comments (1 Comments)
- --Not Meant To Be xoxo - 12/09/2008
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Kassandra, i love this. its so filled with emotion and all of that. but its so beautiful. and i never really quite thought of war like this, not of taking the lives of other, just that they should win so we can still live. love it.
Seleenie
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