Made to make a mother break apart

Designed to send boys home in a box

Created to end a life before it starts

Sending kids under ground below rocks

We’ve done it forever. It’s human instinct

But we’ve come a long way from clubs and stones

And now with these weapons that kill in an instant?

No more is this spears or arrows

See how fast rows of soldiers become rows of graves

They won’t go home a hero’s, just a name on list

One of millions, no one remembers their name

But that doesn’t mean that they won’t be missed

Casualties; injured of dead, they’re marked the same

As if life or a limp are equal

It doesn’t matter they’re just pawns in the game

No one said war wasn’t brutal

The “enemy” like us. Boys covered in red

To young to know better. Just doing what’s right

It’s there a simpler way without blood shed?

Can we please work this out. Do we need to fight

Peace not destruction

Solutions not weapons.

Understanding not violence

Love over hate

There has to be a better way