Alex ~ Poet

Alexander Sanyshyn, 15 year old son of Maria Sanyshyn, Managing Director at our local Somers Pointe Golf Club, has received word from T. K. Worthen, Ph.D., Editor of Creative Communication, Logan, Utah, that his poem will be published in their Anthology, A Celebration of Young Poets. His poem is entered in the final competition and it is still in the running for first prize. Alexander is in the 10th grade at the Brewster High School in Brewster New York.

Doomed to Die
Doomed to die,
He marched off to war
To fight for a pointless cause.
His children not knowing
Their father’s fate.
Doomed to die,
He marched behind the flag,
The flag that would represent his death
And the pointless war that caused it.
The flag that would symbolize
Man’s stupidity and ignorance,
Man’s savagery and lust for power,
Man’s bloodlust.
They would bury him with that flag,
The flag that represented his pointless death
And the pointless war.
His children not understanding,
Why Daddy is gone.
His son not knowing
That he too would meet the same fate.
Doomed to die.

Comment: Clearly, the travails and agonies of our world have already begun to impinge on this lad’s fertile and sensitive young mind. What else is destined to be inscribed upon it? ~ Dom Gabriele