The Casualties Of War Poem by Kevin Hulme

The Casualties Of War

So here I sit in Battlefield Grey
The Rifle warm from the fight of day,
A Murder spree on fellow men
Who will never Love or Hope again.
To fight and hate in foreign fields
And March with pride by duty feel,
Pass littered Corpse unto the Sky;
Their vacant looks as we pass by.
What Mother could bare to see their Sons
Laid deathly cold by blasted Guns,
Decaying in Mud and glass of eye
Or hear their dying pitiful cries.
So if on hill or darkened wood
I get my lot received in Blood,
Then so be it and damn them all,
The Generals and Lackeys that planned it all.
For i'm not the man that Prayed at home
With love of life and Poetry known,
Now a killer forged by Act of War;
May God forgive and all it's for.

Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Topic(s) of this poem: murder,sons
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Amazing how many Poets fought in WW1.16 are Memorialised in ‘Poets Corner' Westminster Abbey. But there are many more.
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