Best Warbetrayal Poems


Hellish Days

I thought I would never again see the sun greet a new day
Now I desperately wish for eternal night.
Betrayed by Newton’s law: an unforgiving justice.
The enemy,
Holding land hostage, 
Tainting its innocence. 
Damn them for what they made it do!
A product of the Devils hands.
Planted to be a rooted flower;
A metallic flower, waiting to bloom and fulfill its sinful purpose.
A sin that war only creates.
This day, life opened Hells gates.
Smoke, Dirt, Fire and Flesh
All mashed together to form a wretched nightmare;
A downward spiral of stained bandages and painful realizations. 
My sons now stand taller from that day on, 
For this new life makes me a seated man.
Who knew that one step would forever change my plans.
His betrayal is all I ponder on.
God, I wish for night, but all I’m getting are hellish days
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Can We Be Friends?

Why would we be friends
After becoming ex-lovers
Refusing not to travel
This fateful course?

How can we be friends
After burning the covers
And breaking flesh and bone
Through this divorce?

Why should we be friends
After taking new lovers
Because we couldn't find it
Within the source?

How can we be friends
After remembrance hovers
'Round betrayal and distrust
With or without remorse?

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