Wars, deaths and destruction
Suffering everywhere I look
And no matter how much we gave
it was never as much as they took
                
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I second the feeling for that.Good straightforward poem.Your strength is that you are very direct to the point with no excessive words.I gave you a ten
usually when writing something like this using rhymes takes away from the sincerity of it, but that definitely didn't happen here, I love this!

 
                     
                
A question I ask all the time - an excellent, thoughtful poem.