An image stalks our memory

too gruesome to forget

a photograph in black and white

the starkness of his death

 

His body hung upon a wire

he was his mother's pride

now slung into the razor wire

barbs twisted in his side

 

What a young life was wasted

when brutal death was met

inhumanity was in the end

the result of this conflict

 

The soldier so unknowing

his body now awaits

till his blood slowly drips to ground

gangrene insinuates

 

How soon his cause forgotten

war's savageness disturbs

one bloody death caught camera's flash

what purpose did it serve.