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Susan K. Rowse

New Age of War

The numbers lead the front page...
Screams of hollow eyes
Drawn up is their hunger
Deep in blazing skies...
Devastated homelands
History going...gone
New age of destiny
Shrunk in human form
Babies with no parents
Bellies protrude...lack
War in all her glory
Futures turning black
Man has made another mark
Playing with his toys
Taking all the beauty
Making men of boys
Creating wife's to widows
Giving parents...morn
Ripped into oblivion
Hearts forever torn
Shapes of peace in circles
Freezbies of despair
Biding time for answers
Dire wishes turn to tears