Trying to Escape

by Lilly-Jane Shutz aged 12

Lots of noise all around,
Crashing, screaming all the sounds.
Silhouettes in the burning sky,
Out of reach like a bird in the night.
Trapped underground no food or water,
Trying to escape the above slaughter.

Crashing waves pull me under,
Lightning and the sounds of thunder,
I see red and I see blue,
I hold to my hope like glue.
I step aboard and I take flight,
Trying to escape the below fight.

Mother’s dead, father too,
Fire, bombs, oh who knew?
Brother, sister no one left,
I want to fight and avenge this theft.
Fire burning all around,
Trying to escape safe and sound.

Death, destruction, still the planes
The flame, still burning and then it rains.
Death surrounds me, blood in every corner,
No more escaping this torture.
Burying remains and somehow,
Trying to escape, no more, not now.

Pick up a sword and fight till death!
I fight with those who still have breath!
Words I say and things I do,
Its all for you and you and you.
Trying to escape what we used to be,
But now they are running across the sea!

I used to love. I used to care,
I used to fear the wind in my hair.
I was a boy. But since the Russian ban,
I gave up the used to be and became a man.

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