Unknown War...

• Grant Hearnden, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2010

Advancing armies hurtle forward
Once quiet lands now filled with noise
Noise of Death, Noise of Blood
The sound of steel on steel rings throughout the land

The battlefield now coated with bodies and blood
Screams of terror, heard by all
Bodies fall and fires rise
No one will truly win...

Fires burns once peaceful lands
Soldiers fall wishing they were the last
But knowing they are not
Ash and Blood fall from the skies...

Blades stained red and drip with blood
Once loud battle cries now gone and lost
Green pastures, now red with blood
20 million soldiers came, none left...