soldier
what good is war?
what does it prove
when it is lost
or
won?
how will you move
back to the man,
a gentle mother’s son?
you learnt to be
what you are not,
you learnt to kill…
and take a life…
…when war is done,
and no more strife,
will you forget
you murdered and destroyed
and maimed…
and aimed your gun
at yet another mother’s son…
how will you watch the setting sun
into the endlessness of night
forget today all that was done
to win an endless fight…
when war is over,
lost or won…
what does it prove?
how will you move
again to be
the man you were
unlearn what you’ve become and who?
no longer kill but love and live
as you once used to do?
what good is war?
what does it prove?
when it is lost
or
won? 
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