Warzone⚰️
Just Another Day - Just Another Conflict. (Imagined Through The Eyes Of A Child 🤦) dogs howling, scavenging for food, just like us children queued all morning for a bowl of potato soup - never enough to eat quenched my thirst with the watery soup, but took the potatoes back to Grandpa and Grandma my grandparents are all I have left in the world they are too frail to queue for rations for themselves picked up a mudded leaflet dropped by air I recognise for the language as my own but can't make out the words, the only school in our village was bombed before I was born, so I have received no education neither Grandpa or Grandma can read or write no one to teach me so I must live by my wits never knew my father he enlisted when the war started my elder brother and protector joined up last year I have neither heard from him or seen him since that day lost my mother and baby brother when they were hit by heavy shelling I can hear gunfire and shouting in the far distance must go now to find shelter, the sound of gunfire coming ever closer
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