3rd Prize, Post-primary Level
A Ripple Effect
What is a consequence?
‘The effect, result, or outcome of something occurring earlier’
The word ‘war’ is not in the word consequence
It might as well be though because war
Never ends in anything but
Consequences.
War is black and white,
Although everything is not crystal clear
War is hard
War is misleading
War is blurry
War in the unknown
War was the past,
But still the present and even the future
War is long
War is distance
War is death
War is ammunition
War is watching a mother cry herself to sleep,
After waving her son off port
War is danger
War is ideas
War in invasion
War is frantic
War is the fear of life and death,
The feeling you get when you realise,
The letter in the post is not the one you wanted,
It’s the one you hoped would never come,
The letter you prayed would go to someone else,
Not because you have hatred but because hatred has you grasped by the arm
War is coming back to your homeland,
Though not as the same person that left
War is tears
War is blood
War is confusion
War is years
War is receiving a letter from your soul mate,
Who you last saw clutching your hand in his
War is far
War is near
War is pain
War is silent
War is a medal you are given,
For surviving seven years on a barren land
War is harmful
War is intense
War is fatal
War is grim
The world was stuck at war,
War took over the world.
People have triggered wars,
Wars have triggered the switch on a riffle.
Peace will never begin with wars,
Wars will never end in peace.
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