War And Science Poem by Paul Warren

Science has always been used by countries
To develop better weapons to defeat their enemies

Dynamite was developed for peaceful purposes
But soon it was being used in their war verses

And Maxim when he developed the machine gun
Thought it would end war by being too terrible to use one

Chemists developed the poison gas of the Great War
As more humane than a death from gut shot wounds and more

Then there is the splitting of the atom by scientists before WW2
That resulted in the atomic bomb and the Cold War too

It seems that we can't stop advancing battle plans
When science develops new horizons that should be grand.

© Paul Warren Poetry