Another Death Song Poem by Birdie Anderson

Dark is creeping
Children screaming
Mothers weeping
I can't see and
Cold is clinging
Soldiers swearing
Fathers burying
I can't help and

Look out of my fear
I am brave
For the war is what
Makes me afraid
Like a cat
Trying to avoid the water
Clutching your arm
Blood flows down
It resembles me
And how I never again
Want to see men
Fight

The sky is crying
The birds are hiding
The grass is dying
I cant keep calm and
Winds are thrashing
Fires make ashes
The wipe it lashes
I feel I'm passing

Look out of my fear
I am brave
For the war is what
Makes me afraid
Like a cat
Trying to avoid the water
Clutching your arm
Blood flows down
It resembles me
And how I never again
Want to see men
Die so that they can
Calmly fight