What is War?
The shot rings out.
Smoke fills the air.
Around the world,
The headlines blare
Blurred out words
And muffled noise.
Soldiers aren’t people
But only toys.
What is war?
A foreign drama
To those in prosperity.
For politicians, a game
With life as a chess piece.
King me.
The road to honor,
Or rout to defeat.
What is war?
Bloody hands
Clinging to hope.
Desperate hearts.
One place to go.
Words nobody ever heard.
The people’s needs have been ignored.
There’s always a way,
But nobody said there wouldn’t be pain.
What is war?
War is victory and defeat,
Homeless children in the street.
Hand that she won’t hold again,
Prints he can’t leave in the sand.
Ruined lives and broken times.
War is where the heroes die.
What is war?
Courage and honor,
A cause to believe in.
To a broken problem,
A broken solution.
Those fighting the fight.
The dark before the light.
This is war.