Battles Lost

I wrote this one for my class.

All I see is emptiness
Empty streets in empty towns
No souls are left to fill
All these bodies all around

The Battle’s Maw has gorged itself
It’s lust for blood fulfilled
A river of red has flowed from the dead
The men who here were killed

The women cry for husbands lost
The children with fathers gone
Sisters will cry for brothers slain
But the war will still go on

This war seems never ceasing
More than any man should take
The dead continue coming
And yet neither side will break

The bullets come, we fight again
There’s a pain inside my heart
I’ve fallen on this battlefield
But still, I did my part