Gassed Poem by Colin Ian Jeffery

Poison gas was used by Germany and the allies in First
World. Started by the French, fatal for three cent of
soldiers gassed, ex-soldiers suffered serious ill-effects for
the rest of their lives

Soldiers in trenches
Hear cry ‘Gas coming'
Fearfully pulling on gas masks
Billowing yellow green cloud
Sweeping in from no-man's land
Flooding trenches.

Gassed, burning throats
Eyes, acute agony, going blind,
Lungs afire, struggling for breath
Fluid building with risk of drowning.