#Poetry #Poem
ANOTHER WAR
by Bill Kochman
07-02-2020
For their nation they all fought,
Just like countless wars before,
Blood flowed thick in the fields,
So much pain one could not ignore.
Many weren’t much older than boys,
You could almost smell their fear,
As the enemy began their charge,
A boy asked “What am I doing here?”
That young man had been a farmer,
He’d only known the ways of peace,
No quarrel he had with the enemy,
He wished the violence would cease.
Government claimed to know better,
So those boys marched thru the mud,
As the bullets made many men fall,
The earth sucked up their blood.
At last the war was finally over,
A great victory had been achieved,
The nation celebrated with parades,
While parents at home just grieved.
Their child would never celebrate,
He too had fallen on that sad day,
For a cause he did not understand,
With his life he was forced to pay.
So often this same story is repeated,
Government always finds a new fight,
When a nation is constantly at war,
Clearly something is just not right.
Rather blessed are the peacemakers,
This is what our Lord clearly said,
If we choose to take up the sword,
By that weapon we may end up dead.
