War Poem by Corey Mason

This is a poem that I wrote in honor of WWII. I was studing it in my 9th grade History class and the idea of the tagic event hit me. So in a few day of watching a movie on the A-Bombs, wrote this poem and through the four years it has be revised to find that perfect flow.


Smashing,
Crashing,
Fleeing in fear
It's what i see every day

We once were a happy little town
A town that went to church
A town that was...well perfect
That was before 19545

The day we all died
Was the day they attacked
At first they told us nothing
Then they said that we had joined the war

I was only 13,
Not much older then you
I was in school, a place they said was safe
When the sirens sounded

A man grabbed me,
Pushing me under my table
I saw my friend go up to the window to close the blinds
She was lost in a blast

Glass went flying,
Cutting me up
I could feel heat
Hot, buring heat

When it all ceased
My teacher carefully got up
Slolwy she counted the bodies
20 kids were dead, we only had 27

My father was in the hospital
We couldn't see him, they said it was too bad
I had horrible 3rd degree burns on my arms
I could hardly feel them

Smashing,
Crashing,
Fleeing in fear
It's what I see every day

I once was healthy
But now I'm sick
They say I have cancer
They say that I'll die soon

I lay still on my back
Watching a little boy near me
He's having is dead skin peeled off him
He looked only 6

My arms have been cut off
I live in an airtight bubble
Still I live in fear
I cannot see my family

Now every day a siren sounds
I think of this stupid war
It's been 10 years
And still I hear the...

Smashing,
Crashing,
Fleeing in fear
It's what I hear every day