If you saw the horror




If you saw the horror

If you in your life once saw

A man's head filled with maggots

Intestines screaming out at you

And smelling such a lot

And seen the horror on his face

Though he be the enemy

Then you'd look at war my friends

And feel the same as me.

I carried him within my arms

This enemy so fierce

He died before my eyes, you know!

Into my heart it pierced

[This horror that be war my friends

The ugliness of it!!!!]

Although he was the enemy

It hurt me quite a bit.

For he was just a human being

Leaving folk who loved him

To die in so much misery

I saw his eyes go dim

And my heart went out to him

For he too, I had killed

I did not fire the blessed missile

Yet guilty I was still!!!.

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Submitted on July 17, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme X X X X X X A B A X X X X B C A C X D A D D X X X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 668
Words 147
Stanzas 25
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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