War Poem about Leaving Love

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Leaving Love

My love is pleading with me

Telling me not to leave her

I can feel her agony deep inside myself too

She is on her knees begging

Our bond of love is strong, I feel terrible to leave her

But I then departed, I gave her my heart

Then my journey to the army I started

In training now

Preparing for a war

That will soon be upon us

In which my head shall bow

For my country or more

For months now working

Training in long, hard sessions

Of every hour, and every day

Countless soldiers scream in depression

They want to be back home.

And when I lay on those small, hard beds

Deep in the coldness of the harsh, metal frame

And wrapped in nothing but a thin, cotton sheet

I lay and try to forget my pain

On my body and in my heart.

Don?t Fall Back

Holding the lines

In deep, dark, snowy trenches

Plague infests us all and the smell of the dead stings my nose when I take in a breath.

As I shoot the other people down

I take their lives for my own

And when I look up above the trench to shoot again

All I see is pinpricks of light

They look at me with the knowledge of a thousand stars

And they stare into my innermost soul, where it is dark

They see my soul shrinking, like the waning of the winter moon

My heart can feel it too

It feels as though it is being wrapped up tightly

Wrapped in the bloodstained snow around me

Beauty, which is a lie, a lie of the glowing light

A light, which is truly dead

A light whose sparkling beams are knives stabbing into my heart

Icy fingers reach out to my soul

The fingers of life and death

Sent by the moon

With the icy fingers, those brilliant beams and the moon

They each send an ever sparkling, iridescent light

to show dark patterns in the snow

Am I to live?

I care not, as long as I have my one love

Lost in Memory

I am now free from war

Free from the deaths

That occur right next to me

Forever waiting for disaster

This obsession is draining my life

I am drowning in my own sorrow and pain

I look at the stars sometimes

For hours on end, I watch them, I reminisce the war

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