War Senses

• Matthew Courtney, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2021

war makes you as blind as a long dead person slumbers
It smells like the strong stench of blood
It tastes like the smoke released from the bullets shot out by guns
It looks like the musket flash, making you see circles for hours at a time
It sounds like comrades and weapons, as if they were cats and dogs
It looks like the choir of ghostly souls haunting you
War is the helplessness that surrounds us