This is a poem I wrote after hearing some devastating news regarding Russia and Ukraine. I imagined what it would be like to be over in Ukraine, where out of my ordinary life, a bomb explodes in front of me, changing everything in just a millisecond. I thought about how so many people were losing loved ones over something most of them probably had nothing to do with. They were just collateral damage. And that, to me, is the worst part about it. The fact that innocent people are perishing at the hands of those who kill because of power and selfishness. This poem is meant to enlighten people from all around the world, in any situation, about the dangers and hardships of unwanted war. In this poem, you can clearly see how the main character is grieving after the loss of someone very important to them, and that grief over a sudden and too-soon death is causing this character to no longer feel the need to move on, to fight, to stay alive. Not only did the war kill someone, it crippled someone else through that loss. This poem is meant to emphasize the devastation of war and bring people to a better understanding of others’ pain and give us all an understanding of the dangers we face when calling out an act of war.