Shellshock Poem by Barry Middleton
Shellshock
not only soldiers
laboring home
not just
the widow lost
not just the child
whose father died
but all must pay
the cost
for war extracts
a nation's soul
and tunes the heart
to hate
and kills the light
of every hope
denying Eden's
gate
exhaustion or
a screaming rage
fill the hollow
street
where shellshock
takes its awful toll
in victory
or defeat
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: hopelessness,loss,soldiers,war
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