Chemical Weapons Poem by Akhtar Jawad

Invention of Machine Guns paralyzed the wars,
The fighting armies could not move for attacks,
The troops hidden in trenches fired each other,
Enjoyed together Brandy, Cakes and Snacks,
When the Christmas came white flags were waved,
At least on that day enmity was waived.

Busy in the labs with its pollen grains,
By the human brain, still an enigma,
For getting a fruit, yellow and pungent,
Chemistry was raped, a selfish stigma!
Mustard Gas and other poisonous gases,
Were blown in trenches by the dirty asses!

Nature disliked and reproved this act,
Direction of the wind was changed by Him,
The offence was reflected back to offender,
The fatty body was contracted to be slim,
A man named Churchill not Winston Churchill,
Mobilized battlefields with a newly built thrill!

Strategy was revised by metallic elephants,
Moving on chains and firing with the trunks,
Like Hindu God Shri Ganesh he came,
Humanity was awaken from the sleep of drunks,
In the secret labs is busy their stigma,
Voices are raised, what a funny enigma!

(Wikipedia
Chemical weapons in World War I were primarily used to demoralize, injure, and kill entrenched defenders, against whom the indiscriminate and generally slow-moving or static nature of gas clouds would be most effective. The types of weapons employed ranged from disabling chemicals, such as tear gas and the severe mustard gas, to lethal agents like phosgene and chlorine. This chemical warfare was a major component of the first global war and first total war of the 20th century. The killing capacity of gas was limited, with four percent of combat deaths caused by gas. Gas was unlike most other weapons of the period because it was possible to develop effective countermeasures, such as gas masks. In the later stages of the war, as the use of gas increased, its overall effectiveness diminished. The widespread use of these agents of chemical warfare, and wartime advances in the composition of high explosives, gave rise to an occasionally expressed view of World War I as 'the chemists' war'.[1][2]
The use of poison gas performed by all major belligerents throughout World War I constituted war crimes as its use violated the 1899 Hague Declaration Concerning Asphyxiating Gases and the 1907 Hague Convention on Land Warfare, which prohibited the use of 'poison or poisoned weapons' in warfare.[3][4])