Michael Shepherd War Poems

Too young to know the horrors of a war I've fought,
too young to know war's fear, or yearn for heroism,
but old enough to have lived through;
boys but one year older than myself
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see that woman
flung over her son's dead body
howling from the depths
of her womb
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when peace is forever,
why war?
It doesn't last
like peace.
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Within themselves, they hold
more than any man or woman should be asked to hold;
they are the unsung heroes of the peace
which clutches at the coat-tails of a war;
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There was peace
before there was war
that's when two parties
fight for 'peace'
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no-one comes back from war

not the victors
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War?

Far harder than the battles of men
is the battle to surrender
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