War - Ww2 - The Book Poem by Paul Warren

It was written in the ‘20s with blame as the theme
Taken on the field of battle in a nightmarish dream
How could words create such a hate?
When tolerance was not allowed and genocide to create
They say that each person who was married got a book
From the town mayor to be proud of the story's hook

So it made a lot of money for an author so proud
And put over the world a dark grey cloud
It was left in a dusty box with other war souvenirs
And taken out when a warrior died after long years
So we look at it now as just a bound leather book
With a picture of a monster in a stern military look

So what do you do with the book now it's time is at end?
Do you throw it in the bin or burn it no pretend
Or do you have it as a thing that shows what it's like
When you give a person the power at others to strike
And so ‘Mein Kampf' should be left for the ages
To show what is evil as you turn over the pages.

© Paul Warren Poetry