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War's Penalty
The gun is on the table now,
it was just in his mouth.
He almost pulled the trigger,
but instead he coward out.
He had done unforgiving,
he took a human life.
Then it was called war
but he'll never forget that night.
He can still hear the screaming,
the echoing of pain
continued whilst he was dreaming
in day it was the same.
He was a soldier in the war,
on that very fateful day.
He saw the innocence die,
simply a price to pay.
Then, he didn't notice,
the hatred in his eyes.
He joined with all the rest
in the blood-shed cheers they cried.
But that was when it happened,
he saw two people there.
A woman and her child,
trying not to stare.
They weren't hiding in the shadows,
not turning to run or flee,
the mother handed him the child,
"Save my baby" was her plea.
There was nothing he could do then,
it was still a war.
He gave her back the child,
and it still ate him to the core.
Not very far away
she ran, he took aim.
The babe and the mother,
would bleed just the same.
He shudders in the memory,
the horror of that night.
He can't forget those feelings,
of pain, of hate, of strife.
He tries to repay the lives,
the people he had killed.
But he's learned the awful lesson,
that dead lives can't be fulfilled…
-5/5/05
