World War 1Poem ‘Why???’ – Rebecca


What is it good for?

It is useless. To fight and kill. To lose things you have for another thing that may not be better. To receive many a sin over murdering those who wish to defend, those who can’t even hold a gun, those forced to fight.

War. Why?

Why do others enjoy to kill their enemies so? Just for getting something that they don’t already have?

War. Those who fight it.

Thinking of glory that never comes for them, only a brutal death, not seeing their loved ones ever again. Knowing that glory will not come for them, dead or alive.

War. Those waiting.

The women and children waiting in fear and in the dark, never knowing if their husbands and sons and brothers and fathers will ever return, trapped in their grief.

War, still.

Young ones  playing killing games, will never know that they might soon have to use a real gun. Countries waiting to attack or be attacked. War raging throughout the world, when we know it does not help.

Stop war. Before war stops us.

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