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THE WAR CHILD

Norman Shoe Sit

What do you know about sympathy
Or indeed the grind of empathy?
What do you know about starvation
In the bowels of your relation?
What do you know about the sounds
Of guns as they offload rounds?
What do you know about despair
When there is no one to repair?
I know because I am a child in a war zone
And  I am bruised all alone .

About this poem

This poem speaks of the human question during war times. Do we really know what it feels like to be in the middle of the conflict.

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Submitted by Shuziman on April 01, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AABBCCDDEE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 330
Words 71
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
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