From time immemorial <br />green fields and valleys <br />have been filled <br />with the innocents <br />of war <br /> <br />red blood <br />of young men <br />slain in battle <br />soaks the fields <br />and inspires <br />the next generation <br />to line up in ranks <br />and die <br />dusty deaths <br />in foreign lands <br /> <br />machineguns <br />waste scores <br />of innocents <br />in sunny meadows <br /> <br />farmers later graze <br />their herds <br />in nearby fields<br /><br />Michael Pruchnicki<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/innocents-of-war/
