Lyric Joseph Poet I do not know?

Nine Months

Nine months to create you
Yet grief is insurmountable
She knows you will leave soon

Plucked from their homes and families
Hundreds of thousands sent to slaughter
A disgusting fight over nothing
It pains every mother and daughter

Boys given tools of destruction
Guns and bombs handed to every man
They are convinced this is worth
To die at the "enemy's" hand

Nine months to create you
Nine seconds to kill
Politics takes precedence
Start writing your will

Men shipped off for a gruesome fight
Years later only few come back after war
But now that this one has ended
Another causes suicide rates to soar

If only time could turn them back
Once young boys teeming with dreams
Now aged and souless eyes they are
Boys turned men due to PTSD

Nine months to create you
Far more years to raise
But the government doesn't care
I implore you not to become a killing slave

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Karen Jones November 19, 2023 at 2:07 PM Powerful write. You put this together well! Bravo Lyric Joseph October 5, 2024 at 10:58 AM Thank you so much!! It really pains me how thoughtless war is and im so glad you took the time to read this, even if im replying so late :)))