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War never changes

May 6, 2024
By Shilup BRONZE, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Shilup BRONZE, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
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War.

War never changes,

Is that entirely true?

Trickery, triumph, trove

for evil acts to unfold

For war! We say, “for God!”

Commit sins in act of God?

Doesn’t it seem so odd?

Without liberty, love,

reach, or reconciliation

our ground will begin to burn.

The Ozone cluttered in mold.

The Earth seems like a stove.

Shall we bring on the cold?

or will we bring on the coal…

War.

War never changes,

Is that entirely true?

We send our kids,

we send our troops.

“Where is our support?”

Should we send that too?

“Only against the Reds, and Oil heads too”,

yelled somewhere upon the stand.

It’s sad we don’t help until we lose.

War.

War never changes,

Is that entirely true?

Maybe we should change the rule.


The author's comments:

This piece takes inspiration from the video game franchise Fallout. Fallout takes aspects from nuclear war aftermaths. As the poem itself, i would like to think i painted a picture on what war does to us and the world, also how us as a human race have justified the acts of war throughout documented years.


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