Do you know <br />What it's like over there? <br />First there's the searing heat <br />And the blinding sand winds blow, <br />Your cracked lips cry <br />For water...from where it comes <br />You don't know. <br /> <br />Do you know what it's <br />Really, really like? <br />To not have a few hours sleep? <br />To keep your mind and ears <br />Awake till your focus, you can't keep? <br /> <br />Do you know how it is <br />To hear cries of pain <br />To the sounds of consuming explosions <br />The deafening terrors <br />Can make anyone insane <br />Unable to take such inhuman condition? <br /> <br />Do you know what it's like <br />To lose friends all around you <br />And never validate the vague reason why <br />Blood, burned bodies <br />Lost limbs and skin lesions <br />Blown up brains and a sightless eye? <br />Tell me how can anyone even smile <br />In that place <br />Where Death <br />Walks the miles? <br /> <br />Do you really know <br />War?<br /><br />Cynthia BuhainBaello<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/do-you-really-know-war/
