By: Michael Johnston

The conflict heavy

Beneath my damp bright red bloody feet

War rages

Through the deadly bright fires

The gunshot echos

Loud but soft all the same

Am I the killer

Or is the killer the country

Or the weapon I hold

Peace offered

But never accepted

In this dark world

Where chaos tends to be the only way

They didn’t ask

They didn’t ask to be killed

Sometimes I wonder

If serving was my choice

And it was

But a nightmare all the same

The gunshot echos

Innocent dies

As the sound fades

As the village crumbles on itself

As I walk away

Wondering if I did the right thing

If it wasn’t me

Would the gunshot still painfully echo

But the gunshot

Will always echo

As the bright red always left

In the echos path

In my mind

The ear bursting sound

Of the gunshots echo

Will never stop

1. Inspired by

2. Issue, war, because the issue of the scar war leaves on someone isnt brought up as muhc as it should be

3. Sadness

4. War

5. A) Damp Bright Red Bloody Feet, But the gunshot will always echo

5. B) Metaphor, Methaphor

5. C) It shows the scars it left on them

6. I changed extreme to ear bursting because extreme seemed more fake than ear bursting, I added bloody to the second line to make it seem more metaphoracal as it was showing that he killed people in the past and not actually stepping in blood

7. It was probably in the middle writing it because I didnt know how to turn the ideas into words for the poem

8. Im fairly satasfied with my final work, I feel like I could have added more metaphors and similes