Men At War

• Matthew Mukhtar, Grade 7
• Poetry
• 2008

War. Can't we settle our differences some other way?
Instead of violence can't there be peace?
Instead of blood can't there be happiness?
Because in the end every country loses.
Nobody wins wars, people still die.
Anyway what does it achieve?
Only losses for friends and families of the victims.
These soldiers take the ultimate risk.
Some of there soldiers are no more that eighteen.
They went seeking adventure and all they got was hell.
Those who survived would be scarred forever.
Who ever went to war would be remembered forever.
Lest we forget.