The War Remembers Poem by Benjamin Chiu Uy

The War Remembers

The war remembers these faces,
hiding in trenches,
with grenades and bayonets,

The war recalled,
the beast in men,

Soldiers against his dark,
counterparts,

Brutal tastes
of a brother's blood
against a failing humanity,

a perfectly
decent son whose passion
in the beginnings
were toy guns
and playing dead possums,

unleashed as platoon of
killers,
and heroes of the nations,

Grief for their mothers,
Head counts on the cemetery,

Once upon a time game by
the Army generals,
with Napoleonic ambition,

The shoulder of
conscience for
all waring nation,

Waiting for turbulence's
reprising encores,

Wind of dark clouds,
black smokes to litter
the fields again

filtering the greens
with the color
red,