Wednesday 9 July 2014

Walk with Me

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Trudging on.
Through the mud,
In the blood
Of comrades,
Horses,
Foes and more.
Bullets sing
Passing by
Whistling tunes
Of death
Of peace
Promised,
Broken lies.
So on we trudge,
To war,
To memorials
Made grubby
By foetid air,
Cleaned sometimes,
By guilt.
Names etched
In stone,
In brass,
In hearts,
Forever.


Now they celebrate,
Remember
With sorrowed brow,
The sacrifice,
The death,
The futility of war.
Politicians colluded
In dark
Secret rooms,
For genocide,
In all but name,
To rid the world
Of dross
Of young
Of talent
Of families.

Politicians survived
To wreak havoc again.

One hundred years pass,
Still we let them.



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