Prisoner Of War Poem by Robin Bennett

Just another day at a verbal war
cannons fire insults
no cover-
Oblivious in my
well worn camouflage
I stand out-
an easy target
in an aged bunker
I crack along with
the concrete-

A random prisoner
of war
a cold cave-
starving for love
where none
lives-

A life clinging to
daily torture as
I begin to starve-
for someone
to notice me-

Cut by razor wire
only a lonely-
trickle of blood
flows from-
my veins now

I'm dead to you-
useless
worthless
pathetic

Only you hold the key-
to my prison in hell
you swallowed it
now trapped forever-
in your hell