War Poem about Leaving Love :: essays research papers

Leaving Love My love is pleading with me Telling me not to leave her I can feel her agony deep inside myself too She is on her knees begging Our bond of love is strong, I feel terrible to leave her But I then departed, I gave her my heart Then my journey to the army I started In training now Preparing for a war That will soon be upon us In which my head shall bow For my country or more For months now working Training in long, hard sessions Of every hour, and every day Countless soldiers scream in depression They want to be back home. And when I lay on those small, hard beds Deep in the coldness of the harsh, metal frame And wrapped in nothing but a thin, cotton sheet I lay and try to forget my pain On my body and in my heart. Don?t Fall Back Holding the lines In deep, dark, snowy trenches Plague infests us all and the smell of the dead stings my nose when I take in a breath. As I shoot the other people down I take their lives for my own And when I look up above the trench to shoot again All I see is pinpricks of light They look at me with the knowledge of a thousand stars And they stare into my innermost soul, where it is dark They see my soul shrinking, like the waning of the winter moon My heart can feel it too It feels as though it is being wrapped up tightly Wrapped in the bloodstained snow around me Beauty, which is a lie, a lie of the glowing light A light, which is truly dead A light whose sparkling beams are knives stabbing into my heart Icy fingers reach out to my soul The fingers of life and death Sent by the moon With the icy fingers, those brilliant beams and the moon They each send an ever sparkling, iridescent light to show dark patterns in the snow Am I to live? I care not, as long as I have my one love Lost in Memory I am now free from war Free from the deaths That occur right next to me Forever waiting for disaster This obsession is draining my life I am drowning in my own sorrow and pain I look at the stars sometimes For hours on end, I watch them, I reminisce the war