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 © | Year Posted 2018

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