A/N: Written for the Mega Prompts Challenge, word prompts #451 – pause

Destroyed Peace

Peace was all he knew
so when war came he was blind,
wandering, through smoke

And that smoke stung his eyes,
brought tears
he could not ignore –

And then it was a sorrow greater than words
which refused to stem that flow
of wretched tears

And he cursed the day he'd thought
the peace he'd hid behind
would forever last
and took up sword in hand

And then the path before him was filled
with even more smoke and tears
and blood
and that peace he'd once lived within
was even further away.