The following is a writing submission to Homewood High School’s literary and creative magazine The Menagerie.

“Trench Warfare” by Rawa Almansoob

Everyone is quiet 

Fields were all red 

Red, not with the color of  pretty Dianthus flowers 

Red like the color of blood 

The blood of soldiers flowing through the grounds like a flood 

Everyone is quiet 

I looked at the dead bodies with no name 

I felt the feeling in me it was a feeling of shame 

Everyone is quiet 

I sat down and started to pray

As everyone stood still and lay

Everyone is quiet 

Everyone is dead