World War Wreckage

• Lachie Macfarlan, Grade 10, Sydney Grammar School -
• Poetry
• 2018

Excellence Award in the 'Write Along 2018' competition

War is thoughtless,
Taking no prisoners and sparing no souls.
War is hungry,
Yearning for blood and devouring all.
War is clumsy,
Aiming for one soul, destroying hundreds.
War is indiscriminate,
Annihilating its most zealous servants.
War is ambitious,
Wreaking havoc everywhere.
War is cruel,
Crushing mankind with its iron fist.
War ends nothing and everything,
Burdening mankind.