Bill,
Thanks for reading and seeing. It’s my most recent anti-war poem and I didn’t have to think twice about the children in at least two currently raging wars where they’re being traumatized and destroyed by the crushing realities of “the old lie” about war noted by Wilfred Owen in “Dulce et Decorum Est.”
Alexandra,
What I said to Bill, above, and thanks for tuning in.
It’s an ironic poem about children, those who suffer and die during wars. The innocent kids in their sand boxes, on beaches or in deserts do not dream such things, but some will face and learn the truth denied by the “the old lie” as adults.
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Ralph
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