Why?

Author's note: After reading the first 3 chapters of All Quiet on the Western Front, It did not seem like these men really understood what this war was about. This was inspired by the quote, "And the fat, weeping woman at home to whom I must write. If only the letter were sent off already!". Soldiers do not realize how it is so easy to take away a loved one from an innocent family. 
 
 


Why is it that I am here
How come these people are enemies
People others call friends,
Family, good men

Forced to take the lives of men
With no knowledge of what they've been through
What they've done
What they or there family have got to lose

Every step through the battle field
Unfamiliar faces lie there with no recognition
But it is as if I have seen them a thousand times
In my everyday life when everyday was almost guaranteed

Only just a few hours ago
Killing these men was nothing to think of
Trying to keep my men and I safe
My men who have grown into my family

Know I have seen the light through my own eyes
Seen the destruction and agony
I have only one question to ask...

Are we fighting for our countries?
Or fighting someone else's fight?