My Writing Collection

War

War
On the sodden battlefield
Hostile war engages
Oh, On the fickle forefront wind
The tide of battle changes

They put up a spirited fight
One that lasted on into the night
A rather grim and painful sight

With the guns that we do wield
Fruitless war engages
They try to frustrate all our plans
We carry on, courageous

Battling for our ultimate plight
We held on to our vengeance, tight
And carried on fighting with spite

Victory was close yet so fugitive
But their army soon began to give
Many died
And fewer lived

How they wanted to eradicate
They wanted, so, to dominate
But easily met a grisly fate

We pushed them back
They stood, bewildered

They stood, aghast
They stood, at last
They stood...
And stared...

They had a foolish, fallible plan
They were duped, and so they ran...
The bomb shells bursted overhead
And then we began to count the countless dead

And at last, they stood, defeated
And, at last, long last
The fight
The fight that we fought so hard
Was completed

Hostile
Mocking
Devastating
The thing that never changes
War