AFTER WAR WAS DECLARED

 

The bombing began

Cities were struck

With vengeance

Night after night

Shattering explosions of death

Shaking the ground

Delivering deadly destruction

Buildings fell to the ground.

Stones and bricks

Turned to shrapnel

As architecture was rent asunder

Death meted out indiscriminately

On the innocents

The mighty Luftwaffe 

Had declared war on civilians

Theatres and churches

Schools and homes

Pubs and shops

All fell victim

Little was spared

In those terrible raids

Many British Cities

Still bear the scars