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Soldier cowering in mud
Overwhelmed, terrified
Weeping, body trembling
Hears scream within the mind
None but he can hear.

No longer able to fight
Desperate to flee the slaughter
Cannot stop weeping
Tries to stand but remains in the mud
Mind refusing to obey.

Mind protecting body
Preventing soldier
Fighting and killing
Trapping him
Struggling for sanity in an asylum.

Colin Ian Jeffery

Friday, August 28, 2020

Topic(s) of this poem: world war i

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Shell shock is reaction to overwhelming terror producing helplessness, flight, or inability to reason, sleep, walk or talk. By the end of World War One the British Army dealt with 80,000 cases of shell shock, including poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.

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