The soldier smiled at the innocent child, who didn’t understand war and
anger.
Little
Peacemaker
(Inspired
by a photo on Nightwish’s DVD End of Innocence)
written by Elina Lahtonen
Kaarina Senior High School, Finland
Far away from here a little boy was standing upon a field. The eastern wind was blowing on his golden hair and touched his cheeks. His name was Veikko.
It was the time of War in Finland. He looked towards the east, to the lands
of the Union of Soviet Socialistic Republic..
Windows were covered with a black cloth; there weren’t any lights in
the rooms. Cows were in the forest.
He heard a gun shot and saw an army in the east.
He ran to his home village and told the news to his mother.
She jumped on the saddle and galloped to tell their neighbours.
“The Russkis are coming! Get away!”
Everybody took their children, horses and something to eat ? soon the whole village was empty.
Or was it? Veikko was standing alone in the village in the middle of chaos.
He heard the steps of a galloping horse, and then a shot.
Then a second. and a third. He ran across the flowering field, and saw something terrible ?
Russian’s soldiers.
They looked very angry, in the eyes of a little child. Some soldier spotted Veikko, and rode to him.
The soldier pointed a gun at him. Veikko only took a daisy and put it on the gun’s barrel.
Veikko was only a child, he didn’t understand it all, but he knew it was the days of independence
