The War Is Over

• Dexter Gillett, Grade 8, Cammeraygal high School -
• Poetry
• 2018

Excellence Award in the 'Write Along 2018' competition

Blood stains the cities and the landscapes raw red
And the world collapses and collides and spasms hysterically
This is war, a twisted, warped world in a rebellious tantrum
A bloody wasteland imbued in hell
Sorrow fills the dead, rupture them to empty vessels
Gunshots shatter the battlefield
Reaping the living with tenacious power
Blood accumulates on the ground where the dead have wept
The ongoing war culminates, and warriors stand aloft
They stand in silence as if fixed in a trance
Warriors of temerity,
Come home with jaded eyes and heads replete with perpetual agony
“The war is over” that’s what they cry
They ripple with joy, the thought of passion is relieving
The end of their deep havoc
The War is Over