As children

Playing board games

Innocence sparkles

Without igniting flames

Daily joy

Nourishing trust

Every hour brightens

Happiness never rusts

World ignores

Destroying hope

Daylight now darkens

War viewed through every scope

Man’s nature

Mapping each clash

Nations torn apart

Battlefields burned to ash

Future doubts

Flowing with tears

Children’s hearts saddened

Tomorrow’s constant fears