Conflict

What is it good for?

Absolutely Nothing

The newscaster ducked, his words lost amid the rocket blasts.

I hit rewind and watched as desert instead of jungles filled the screen.

Decades past, still they die and still I miss you.

So much lost, so little gained, all for nothing but heartache and pain. War.

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Today’s A to Z Challenge is a re-post from a  Five Sentence Fiction Prompt in 2014

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