I wrote this before lockdown, for the Blackburn College Small Stories Poetry Slam, on the theme of War. The event had to be postponed due to the covid outbreak. This poem is about the horrors of being a refugee. Imagine adding covid to this.

Child of War

Sorry to be a bore, taking your attention from more
entertaining sights than the plight of this child,
trapped in a war zone, trying to survive, alone and afraid,
both his parents slaughtered in a bombing raid.
Brutalised, growing cold and...