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War Is Kind (standard:poetry, 213 words)
Author: kendall thomas Added: Dec 22 2002Views/Reads: 3545/2120Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
A college student rationalizes feelings of guilt for being sheltered from a war in which others die.
 



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Hell, no! 

And I know; 

somewhere I've read it's so. 

. 

Besides you're dying 

for your country, and 

how glorious 

that must be! 

. 

We will remember you; 

do not doubt that; 

and, by golly, 

we will cry 

to think how young you were 

and that you had to die. 

And if the giving was your soul, 

then you gave it with our pride. 

And that should have given comfort 

on the day you had to die. 

. 

O, Mother Grief, 

kiss your sons goodbye, 

but do not cry. 

War is kind 

I know; 

they tell us so. 


   


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