Found Poem

War is 

Thick and numbing

Shot away chunks of meat below the ribs

It wasn't to kill, it was to hurt

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

War is hell

Soldiers begging for the noise to stop

Pieces of skin

Still alive, though just barely, just in the eyes

Seemingly hollow and unattached

Your mind will hate it

Eyes will take it in

War is mystery

The aliveness makes you tremble

You're never more alive than when you're almost dead.

Without morals

Civility blends into savagery

They were afraid of dying but they were even more afraid to show it

Almost everything is true, almost nothing is true

A true war story cannot be believed

The crazy stuff is true

The normal stuff isn't.

You can't tell a true war story,

It's just beyond telling.

It's about discovering who you are

A real life horror movie

War is not true

War cannot be false

You don’t care for the truth.