Officer Diary Entry Ww1
How many more?
How many more before this devil is fed?
A hundred, a thousand, does he ever get enough?
This existence is now becoming too much to bear
I don’t know if life’s worth what’s happening out there
Perhaps one day they’ll praise this as some honourable sacrifice
Perhaps it’s nature’s way of thinning life?
But so many boys now won’t be men
Tell me who’s idea was this war again
Tell me so I can remember their name
So I can find them in hell and kill them again
Copyright © A Yorkshire Poet | Year Posted 2018
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