this is a poem i wrote for my english project. We have to enter a poem in a contest and i wrote this and decided to use it. Keeping in mind i'm grade 7 how is it?

We, The Children

By Shawn Benteau

As we are your children
We will follow your ways
We will fight for our country
Our guns will blaze.

And what happens after that?
What will our sons do?
Our sons will fight,
Because that's all we knew.

As long as we live
On our blue and green sphere
We will have war
We will all live in fear.

Now ten years have past
WWIII has ended
I'm just 23
Yet my wounds couldn't be mended

I lost my legs in the fight
On the tan desert front
Afghanistan has been torn
From our ridiculous stunt

War has changed us
I am no longer me
I am no longer happy
Like I used to be

I have seen the horror
On a friends face
He is now underground
In a black oak case

As we are the future
And we have the power
To stop this repeating
With our blood red flower

The poppy reminds us
That many have passed
War is good for no one
We must stop it, at last.




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