One Stands One Falls Poem by Jacob Courtney

The bullets are fling all around us as
we run to cover. Smoke from the fires
clouds the air and with every bomb it
just adds more. Debris from the explosions
flies everywhere. You can hear faint
screams coming from all directions. My
heart races as my adrenaline pumps through
my body faster and faster. We look at
each other knowing that we need to find
the enemy. You look left I look right.
Taking a chance you run to whats left
of a building. I turn and take off to
the right hoping that the enemy will
focus on one of us while the other takes
him out. Hearing the bullets hit the
dirt around me I run toward cover as I
get around the corner I come face to
face with the enemy. Both of us with
fear in us both of us who are still
children both of us who want to live.
In this moment we both knew this. As
the moment passes it felt like hours
when it was only a second. As the
shots ring out only one of us stands
while the other falls.