Poems On Site: 198,500+ Comments On Poems: 427,000+ Forum Posts: 105,000+ |
Custom Search
|
|
||||
Welcome ! | Home · FAQ · Topics · Web Links · Your Account · Submit Poetry · Top 30 · OldSite Link | 29-May 13:03:34 AEST | ||
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
Array
(
[sid] => 74945
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => Pandemic
[time] => 2004-12-08 19:35:30
[hometext] => What goes around comes around.
[bodytext] => People they stayed inside and only venture out when they had to It was bitter cold this year of nineteen hundred eighteen Those who did venture out were considered fools Young boys were fighting that war over there A muddy trench was lost only to be taken back the next day The whole world seemed scared In the same trenches friend died along with foe Screaming bleeding coughing crying and dying The grimreaper was taking his toll Every nation involved claimed to have won Trenches muddy trenches full of bodies were bulldozed over An armistest was called they wern't fooling no one Armies just stopped fighting and went home Coffin makers couldn't keep up business was good Fernial homes had caskets filled and stored Some of those dying build their own casket from wood Everyone knew someone who was sick dying or dead Old man mother or baby it didn't matter They didn't know it was a pandemic they dread Around the world people were dying by the score Taking some twenty or thirty million that year The flu of 1918 and not the war Now here we are this year 2004 Chicken flu in Asia has jumped to man the death rate is at seventy percent If it's a pandemic it's one were not ready for Flu germs mutate so fast it hard to discover the strain Our country and the world countries are setting here unprepared It takes time to discover and develop a vacine Soliders dying in Iraq Screaming bleeding coughing and dying What the heck [comments] => 2 [counter] => 193 [topic] => 13 [informant] => Sinned [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 0 [associated] => [topicname] => DarkPoetry )
|