Best Warlust Poems


War

Conflict, killing, death and destruction 
Fiery clouds like volcanic eruptions 
Sweeping across as if winds from hell 
Oblivious of the cries or the tolling of bells 

Ravaging, raping, mother earth 
Humanity forgotten, savagery first 
Old and young, turning lives into dust 
Wombs with unborn, just victims of lust 

The lust for power, oh wealth and all 
No value of life, just riches the goal 
Senseless and absurd, this drive insane 
Men of intellect causing so much pain 

Why, oh why is it so very hard 
For the power hungry men who hold the cards 
To comprehend, to understand, the futility of war 
Just a short term win, showing future the door 

In wars, there's never a winner at all 
Just a loser subdued, as a nation falls 
While the aggressor struggles just licking the wounds 
Conjuring up stories explaining the countless tombs 

Oh to tell an orphan why the state is such 
Why his father and mother were just blown to dust 
Or a defenceless couple with burdens to carry 
That the apple of their eye is but a distant memory 

Feeling heavy, I look around with a weeping heart 
For a solitary reason why we play this part 
No winners just losers, innocent casualties untold 
War is God's clear sign we have lost all control

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