Just think
what all those dead
young men could have done
in the years after 1918.
Think of the advances
in Art, Literature,
Music, Science. Think of
the leaders who might
have steered their countries
into a better new age.
And think of the
potential of their
descendants, never born.
Because politicians,
and Generals, thought
nothing of those things,
and happily sent
them off to die.
For nothing.
