War Scars

• Maja Dodt, Grade 8, Canberra High School
• Poetry
• 2014

Excellence Award in the 'The Text Generation 2014' competition

A waste land of desolation,
A confined world of isolation,
Ashes left from cremation,
The war is now over,

Abandonment slowly ravages,
A country filled with savages,
A family’s home vanishes,
The war is over but the scars remain,