CULLED.
Cut locks
gently falling floorward.
Cropped hair
will soften goodbyes.
Curls chopped
scalp deftly shaven.
So ends
lads\' innocent lives.
Bent minds
conceive child-soldiers.
War needs
pre-teenage pared men.
Bald heads
unfairly culled to kill.
Must youth\'s
blood be spilt yet again ?