Trauma of war
Walking dead,
Talking dead,
Shots flying,
Dodging bullets,
Family crying,
Lost this soul,
This man’s war,
Tears in my eyes,
Dropping like blood,
My neck swiveling day to day,
Shadows of figures in my brain,
Night and day,
The flip of a switch I am blazing tall,
Dropping them like flies.
Can’t go like this.
Family crying,
People dying,
This man’s war,
Tears in my eyes,
Dropping like blood,
Now I kneel to my knees,
I pray for peace and peace of mind,
In this man’s war.
About this poem
Soldiers may leave the battlefield but they are still at war.
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Written on November 01, 2003
Submitted by Donford3652 on March 10, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | aabxBxCDEfxfxdx BbCDExxc |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 480 |
Words | 110 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 8 |
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