A town built upon the dead
the starved
and the murdered
and those left to die
in the deprivations
of imprisonment
and in the flames too
and the fire
of earlier devastations
We don’t remember the names
of the innocent beneath our feet
Yet the names of those that
should have died nameless in their guilt
we repeat them
we repeat them
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Notes:
1. Written in March, 2018
__________And we went to war
for nothing
and no-one
just because we could
untouched by the consequences
We gave our grandchildren guns
and told them lies
about responsibility
and duty
and honour
And we told the lies so often
we believed them ourselves
I think
even the ones about our love for them
as we pushed their boats out to sea
towards their doom
away
from ours
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Notes:
1. Written on September 6th, 2017
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