War

Children are running in despair

As gunpowder starts to fill the air

We watch it happen everywhere

Losing things that were once held with care

Our people cry for the fight

Leaving their homes and leaving the light

Families start to break

With every other life we take.

Why are we hiding in desperate fear

Why can’t I wake up when death is near

Children crying all around

Ringing ears after every gunshot sound

War and blood and chaos has come

Humans don’t notice what they’ve done

What has happened to us?

I don’t know how to call it off

I know my actions alone aren’t enough

I’m watching the Earth crumble before my eyes

I can see the black clouds stumble through the skies

People fight what they don’t understand

A red haze starts to cover the land

It becomes a battlefield with nowhere to hide

As the sun goes down and Hell starts to rise.

Why are we hiding in desperate fear

Why can’t I wake up when death is near

Children crying all around

Ringing ears after every gunshot sound

War and blood and chaos has come

Humans don’t notice what they’ve done

What has happened to us?

I look at the captives sitting around

They’re huddled together gagged and bound

Their skin falls loosely off their body

Starving and homeless with their faces muddy

I look at the cruelty of my own kind

There is always that dark side to the human mind

It’s selfish, angry, jealous and scared

Not thinking of how others have cared

And when time comes to deciding between them or you

It’s them all the way cause they don’t know what else to do.

Yelling and shouting in desperate fear

I sleep through the day and wake when night is near

Mothers try to comfort their children’s screams

Because they’re no longer safe even in their dreams

Humans can’t see how pointless war is

Until the last gunshot is fired,

And the sweet sound of nothingness.