Journey Into War
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Akemi Evans, Grade 6
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Poetry
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2018
I stand confident, strong,
On the verge of death,
On the peak of the shadowy horizon.
Bullets shoot past me,
Piercing my naïve courage,
A portent of the horror yet to come.
My battalion queues up,
Impatiently waiting for action and adventure.
Our battleship cruises majestically,
Across a sunrise I might never see again.
Am I afraid? No, I am not.
We will boldly embark,
Through gunfire and peril.
Here we go, I am ready.
But then the terror comes.