A man who fell, at battle's break
Knew not the devil as a snake
For twas was another man, who thee
Did pass a bullet through the body of he
Once he fell, upon the wet, sodden ground
Nothing felt, nothing heard, no, not a sound
The last light of day he saw
As his lifeless body, lay upon the floor
A soldier he was, sent by men of old
Cowardly, bitter and full of remorseless cold
They sat upon their ivory tower
Holding his life and death, within their power.
The enemy who could easily have been a brother
Once a child too, just from someone else's mother
Only the pain of that dreaded, awful word
Now this soldier's mother will have to have heard.
''I'm sorry ma'am for your son was killed''
But how could that be, for he was so skilled
He was a painter, always funny and kind
Again, the world has lost, another brilliant mind.
The sun has set on the men that fell
The survivors now live, in a permanent form of hell
The world has been ravaged beyond compare
The sorrow and misery caused that can never repair.
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Author:
Tarack (
Offline) - Published: March 14th, 2020 19:25
- Category: Sad
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Such a true write Tarack, so many wonderful people killed for reasons they did not know.
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Thank you! I was listening to 'The Thin Red Line' by Hans Zimmer and this just came out of me.
BRIAN HERE ~ GOOD EVENING TARACK ~ Welcome to MPS. It is a proactive site and operates by reading & commenting on each others Poems ~ Please check our site.
Thanks for your first Poem ~ elegantly penned in Rhyming Couplets my fave ! However the Subject is very sad but alas oft repeated ! It sounds like the Trench Warfare in WW1 (1914 - 18) Pro Patri Mori ! Thousands of Young Men ~ with their lives before them ~ sent to die like Animals ~ by Generals who should have known better ! And for what reason ?
WW2 was different. GOOD - The Allies - against EVIL - The Third Reich. There was a loss of 20 million Lives - 6 million of them Innocent Jews ~ Men - Women - Children ! Against all odds GOOD prevailed against EVIL ~ Adolf Hitler who was a Mad Despot & 100% Anti-Semitic ! Most WAR is futile - BUT - Sometimes it is esseential ~ AMEN
Blessings & Peace to You & Yours
SHALOM ~ Brian & Angela 🧡🤍💙
Thank you for the reply. My poem was aimed mainly at WW1 but I was seeing some imagery from WW2 when I was writing. Many of the men who died, did so needlessly in both wars. And I feel that given the scale of the deaths, many were forgotten before they were even dead. As Stalin put it, ''One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic.''
Also, sadly the loss of WW2 was far greater, over 75 million people lost their lives.
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