Literally wrote this while eating lunch I just finished the kite runner so this inspired me to write this. Writing stuff about history takes me back because I was a HUGE history nerd, and I still am but actually the first novel I wrote in sixth grade was historical fiction right before I joined scratch!
195 countries, and one life, 260 major wars, and one class, 40 shots fired, in only one year, So They’ll write another article, about everything I fear, Malnutrition, bones on the street, Sickness, that’s all they get to eat, It only takes one bullet, so of course, he gets the right, It only takes one bullet, so he shoots it at night, Baby, those aren’t fireworks, But they’ll bring the gun during Fourth of July, Syria, Darfur, Kabul, Israel and Palestine, Auschwitz, Warsaw, Russia and Ukraine, Assault, violence in the USA, A 12 year old is too young to have a baby today, A Veteran died from the one thing he used to duck and dodge, Peace is merely a mirage, As dictators find new ways to sabotage, A white rose, a black armband, a red poppy, It’s a sad story, but they’ll tell it oh so casually, “We can’t be biased but our hearts are heavy”, And I’ll look at the photographs that Journalists took, Tracing the dying 8 year old’s hand, if only she would have ran, The world lives on war, that’s how the map forms, The world lives on war, so that’s why the weary mother feared when her baby was born, Life isn’t fair, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t care, About the terror, That echoes from the other side. -History class
